White Night Wedding

White Night Wedding centres on Jón, a middle-aged literature professor living on the small Icelandic island of Flatey, who is about to marry for the second time. His bride is a former student half his age, and the match has not gone down well with her mother, who opposes it and wants a loan repaid before the wedding. Jón is also trying to get a golf course built on the island, with little success, while his heavily drunk best man wanders about without his shoes and thoughts of his first wife keep intruding. As guests arrive for the ceremony, he begins to have doubts, and the long bright night that follows leaves him with a decision to make before the church service.

Baltasar Kormákur directed and co-wrote the film with Ólafur Egill Egilsson, and produced it with Agnes Johansen. It was released in 2008, sitting between A Little Trip to Heaven and Inhale in the director's filmography. Hilmir Snær Guðnason plays Jón, with Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Laufey Elíasdóttir, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Jóhann Sigurðarson and Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir in supporting roles. The story draws on Chekhov's Ivanov, transposed to a contemporary Icelandic setting. The film runs 96 minutes, and on TMDB it holds a rating of 6.1 out of 10 from a small number of votes.