There are certain moviegoers who can face onscreen murders, maimings and the grisliest of mutilations and scarcely bat an eyelid, but who feel every cell in their body die a little whenever a chara…
” — a witty, incisive satire on the modern obsession with self-actualization, which is also, to those of us with heightened sensitivity to social awkwardness, 98 masochistic minutes of second-hand squirm. Many’s the film offered up as evidence for Roger Ebert’s often quoted assertion that cinema is “a machine for creating empathy”; fewer are the titles, like this one, that make one question if that’s necessarily a good thing.
Together, Vera and André seem the very model of idealistic-to-the-point-of-naive millennial optimism — an impression enhanced by DP Jonathan Bjerstedt’s crisp images, washed to laundry-freshness in cool Nordic light. But there’s one small thing. Vera is annoyed at herself for not being able to quit smoking and books a session with a hypnotherapist.
That the script, co-written by De Geer and Mads Stegger, shifts focus from Vera to André might be an issue if both actors weren’t so in concert, even when showing the schism that Vera’s epiphany opens up between them. August never softens Vera’s swerve into unpredictability; at times she is almost monstrous in her disregard for the humiliations she’s casually visiting on her hapless partner.
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