A divorce drama that works like a mirror.
Director: Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Like a Flamingo) - Actors: including Helga Guren, Odgeir Thune, Elisabeth Sand
Length: 104 minutes - Language: Norwegian
- Subtitles: Dutch
It all started so beautifully, but the relationship of Maria(Helga Guren) and her second husband Sigmund is not what it used to be. Maria feels a great imbalance with her husband about the relationship between work and caring for their family. Sidmund feels hemmed in by a frustrated wife. After a number of arguments and conversations, which are awkward and unsatisfactory, the idea of divorce is broached. The painful question arises: what went wrong?
Thus described, the film looks like yet another divorce drama. But what director Lilja Ingolfsdottir portrays quite distinctively is the confrontational "soul-searching" Maria undertakes to break the behavioral patterns that led to the separation.... And now let's hope that a film follows that puts Sigmund's perspective at the center.
