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Sex

Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud

2024

Norway

125 minutes

Unclassified 15+

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When a modern-day chimneysweep has sex with a man whose chimney he’s, ahem, cleaning, then tells his wife and his colleague, each is forced to question the quirks of sexuality.

One of the hits of Berlinale 2024, Sex climbs atop the high-rises of a Norwegian city to survey the quizzical contemporary landscape of sex, in which monogamy and fluidity make for uneasy bedfellows. Two married and ostensibly heterosexual friends are unmoored when one of them sleeps with a man and the other begins to question the recurring dreams he’s been having, in which David Bowie gazes at him longingly. Dag Johan Haugerud’s film is funny but also sincere and compassionate, playing out in a series of long, winding, highly articulate conversations. They’re captured by a camera that is fittingly unrestricted, floating between characters mid-scene.

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Had your fill of punishing investigations into toxic masculinity? Then the thoughtful questioning, sensitivity, low-key humor and refreshing candour of Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex might be your antidote

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

Sex offers a thought-provoking reflection on identity, sexuality and freedom sparked by a simple conversation between two male colleagues

Allan Hunter, Screen International

Special Guest

Jan Gunnar Røise

Cast / Actor

Jan Gunnar Røise is a Norwegian actor with over 30 film credits. A graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Theatre, Røise is best known for his roles in Comrade Pedersen, Perfect Strangers, and Power Play, and continues to be cast in a number of theatre productions at the National Theatre. He also received the Canon Award and Amanda Award for his role in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Beware of Children.