| R |1hr. 46mins. |Romance, Drama |PHARS FILM
Director: David Wnendt
Writers: Rebecca Dinerstein (screenplay by) (as Rebecca Dinerstein Knight), Rebecca Dinerstein (based on the novel by) (as Rebecca Dinerstein Knight)
Cast: Jenny Slate, Alex Sharp, Fridtjov Såheim | See full cast & crew »
Release:
The film held its world premiere on January 26, 2019, at the Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It was released on July 17, 2020 by Quiver Distribution.
An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.
The Sunlit Night follows an aspiring painter (Jenny Slate) from New York City to the farthest reaches of Arctic Norway for an assignment she hopes will invigorate her work and expand her horizons. In a remote village, among the locals, she meets a fellow New Yorker (Alex Sharp), who has come in search of a proper Viking funeral only to find that the Chief (Zach Galifianakis) is but a re-enactor from Cincinnati.
The eclectic crew ranges from “home” to “lost,” within the extreme and dazzling landscape of the Far North. Under a sun that never quite sets, and the high standards of an unforgiving mentor, Frances must navigate between ambition, desire, obligation, and risk in order to find a way forward.
Synopsis:
Set between New York City and the far north of Norway, The Sunlit Night follows American painter Frances and émigré Yasha as an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic circle. Frances has arrived to jumpstart her career while Yasha has come to bury his father in the land of the Vikings. Together under a sun that never quite sets, they bury the past and discover the future, and family, they didn’t know they had.
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