Love

Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud
Norway
2024
119 mins

Synopsis

The second standalone chapter in Dag Johan Haugerud’s lauded modern relationships trilogy extends his study of intimacy – taboo, romantic or both. In competition, Venice 2024.

Haugerud’s keenly observed follow-up to Sex (SFF 2024) brings two very different notions of romance into focus. Love introduces Marianne, a urologist (Andrea Bræin Hovig), and Tor, a hospital nurse (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen), who trade tales of their searches for authentic connection in present-day Oslo: Marianne, who’s straight, is being set up with a handsome, geologist divorcee, but is intrigued to learn that Tor, who’s gay, cruises local ferries at night using Grindr. Equally attuned to the desire for a soulmate as for casual flings, Love is about more than just the physical. Where Haugerud in Sex used humor to confront taboos, in Love he approaches his subject with tenderness, warmth, and sophistication.

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Love feels, in its quiet, conversational way, rather radical: a tender, gently observed relationship study that places as much stock in casual sex as in seeking a soulmate.
Guy Lodge, Variety

Tickets

Fri 6 June 2025, 6pm
Ritz Cinemas Randwick - Cinema 5
WheelchairSubtitledAssisted Listening
Wed 11 June 2025, 6:15pm
Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3
WheelchairSubtitledAssisted Listening
  • Program Strand
  • Original Title
    KJÆRLIGHET
  • Year
    2024
  • Classification
    Unclassified 15+
  • Country
    Norway
  • Language
    In Norwegian with English subtitles
  • Director
    Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Producer
    Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum
  • Cast
    Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen
  • Screenwriter
    Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Cinematographer
    Cecilie Semec
  • Editor
    Jens Christian Fodstad
  • Genre
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    Australian Distributor: Vendetta Films
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