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 An artist grapples with the tensions of work, motherhood, and a husband who simply won't let go in the deceptively modest new film from the Icelandic director, a follow-up to "Godland." "Separated" is a fraught and transient term in human relationships, prone to contradictory definitions by couples long inclined to conflict: a prelude to a definitive ending for one, a conciliatory pause for the other. In Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason's striking and emotionally intense marital drama "The Love That Remains," artist Anna (Saga Gardarsdottir) is ready to separate, or rather <i>be</i> separated, from her sailor husband Magnus (Sverrir Gudnason), while he stubbornly maintains his presence in the house they share with their three children, and even occasionally in her bed. It's a semblance of domestic stability that she finds increasingly less comforting. Director: Hlynur Pálmason Writer: Hlynur Pálmason Stars: Panda, Saga Garðarsdót...