Love (Kjærlighet, Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)

We follow the doctor, Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), who becomes fascinated by the sex life of the nurse, Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen), and decides to try a freer love life, with all the challenges that come with it.

The earlier films “Sex” and “Dreams”, which we have also shown, together with this one “Love”, are three films that can each be viewed on their own. These stand-alone films revolve around the themes of desire, identity, and the longing for freedom. This newest film, “Love”, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it competed in the main competition.

Like Haugerud’s previous films, this one has received outstanding reviews, including in the world’s oldest film magazine, Variety, where Guy Lodge writes:
“Love’s commentary on modern relations may be more complex and chewy than just ‘live and let live,’ but the film’s calm embrace of whatever works for the individual is refreshingly humane, rhetorically exciting and more than a little hot.”