Love

Kjærlighet

Norway | 2024 | 120 min

Language: Norwegian

Subtitles: English

Suitable for audiences aged 7 and above

Director(s): Dag Johan Haugerud

Script: Dag Johan Haugerud

Cast: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Citadella Jacobsen, Thomas Gullestad, Lars Jacob Holm, Marte Engebrigtsen, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Morten Svartveit

Production: Motlys, Viaplay Group

Distribution: Norwegian Film Institute NFI

Drama

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“What’s it like to have sex these days?” a cynical psychiatrist asks the young nurse Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen), who is looking for casual male companionship aboard a ferry that shuttles back and forth through the Oslo archipelago. The question captures much of what Dag Johan Haugerud’s final installment of the Oslo Trilogy is about—even if it's nominally dedicated to love, whereas the previous two parts explored (more) sex and dreams.

In the film, the ferry becomes a fascinatingly enclosed space of temptation. Love, too, jumps aboard as a stowaway—bringing with it care and emotional investment, but also the fear of crossing boundaries and the ever-present risk of disappointment that comes with fleeting encounters turning into deeper emotional ties.

In Haugerud’s delightfully intelligent and curious film, these questions are explored by the aforementioned urology clinic nurse, Tor, and his colleague, Marianne (Andrea Brein Hovig), a doctor in search of a new partner.

Tytti Rantanen