‘Love’ Review: Dag Johan Haugerud Makes An Entirely Believable Film About Decent People, Everyday Life And … Love – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comSex is never just sex, says Bjorn (Lars Jacob Holm), a middle-aged psychologist Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen) meets on the ferry between central Oslo and Nakholmen, the island where they happen to have neighboring houses.
Tor, a nurse who works with cancer patients, looks sceptical. Tor has had a lot of sex, often generated by Grinder and occasionally on this ferry; it’s a thrill, he tells his colleague Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), to do a search for the nearest person on the app and look up to see the person on your screen looking right back at you.
Marianne gives it a try on Tinder and meets a man who tells her he is married. Does he feel guilty? Yes, extremely guilty! “You’ve ruined it a bit, now,” he says accusingly.
Bjorn was right. Sex is never just sex. Dag Johan Haugerud’s discursive film is a companion piece to his earlier Sex. Once again, his protagonists are middle-class professionals groping for a way to live that sits well with them, which became tiresomely self-indulgent in Sex.
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