‘Touch’ Director Baltasar Kormákur on Working With Novelists, the Influence of His ‘Traumatic’ Divorce, Casting His Son: ‘I Don’t Want to Hurt My Child’

At the Taormina Film Festival, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur spoke to Variety about romantic drama “Touch,” his adaptation of the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. The film was released last week in the U.S. by Focus Features, earning rave reviews and a 93% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. Previously Kormákur has filmed Idris Elba versus […]