To best detail the end of humanity, it’s interesting to visit a corner of the world that hasn’t found finality yet. “Bokeh” (which takes its name from a photographic event) isn’t a disaster movie, but it does venture into the great unknown within an empty world, following two lovers into the wilds of Iceland, which has become the place to be for recent film productions looking for unusual scenery to backdrop dramatic endeavors. The unthinkable and unknowable occurs in “Bokeh,” but writer/directors Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan don’t indulge spectacle. Instead, they make a relationship picture, and one with atypical points of stress, hoping to find the nuances of love and survival as two people spending time together are left with only each other, struggling to make sense of their new reality. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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