The old size gets that men have only one thing in their minds gets wide corrective in the “sex” Dag Johan Haugerud – which makes us mistake the title that controls us simply sharply. Sex certainly appears early and often in this complicated personality study, but in surprising ways, it runs out of the stereotype. After two male colleagues in a row while they are open to each other about the recent experiences that challenge their sexual and sexual identities, the malicious Handhroud comedy deals with various crises of modern masculinity with a light and human touch, and finding more curiosity than toxicity in the toxicity of Workaday characters – and making an issue It seems to be anomalous desires and motives as the reality of daily life.
Thanks to its loose, loose quality-it was clear that Haugerud was a novelist before he turned into filmmaking-good glow, good jaw from films that examine human and intimate relations in modern Norway. It was first displayed on the sidebar of the panorama in Berlinaly last year, before the entire project got a large boost with the opening of the Venice for the second input, “Love”. The third “Dreams” will be shown at the international level in the Berlin competition this month, where distributors who are waiting for the full image to appear to determine the best issue of issuing these unusual but accessible films. (Strand launched a trilogy of the United States), each of which stands independently as a cord, although it shares all types of supplementary topics and perspectives.
In addition to the most provocative title, “Sex” includes the most exciting story hook, which was initially unveiled in a smartly framed conversation as a therapeutic session. In a neutral office space, one man (Thorbjorn Har) is more or less than monologues for an invisible listener at the beginning, and he narrates strange details about the last dream that did not leave his opinion-where he meets a personality that resembles God in a form of David Boy, and gradually realizes that Boy It relates to it as a woman. Ultimately, the camera does not reveal an analyst, but rather a sympathetic colleague (Jean -Gunnar Ruiz) at Oslo trading chimneys where he works as a supervisor. No person was named in the context of the film, although other characters – most notably their children – are: We are invited to see both men of the age.
Away from the comic thickening that you may expect, the colleague interacts with this confession of the subconscious sex that is interrogated with the gentle sympathy – not at least because he has something of his own recognition. On the previous day, he explains that he was cleaning the customer’s chimney when the customer suggested it with an offer. Initially, he refused and left, before changing his mind, returning to the customer’s home, and enjoying some joy, not in the afternoon. To sweep the chimney, a married middle -aged man, this was the first time that he slept outside his marriage; This was the first time that sex with a man. In fact, the entire experience is new to him so much that this is not considered a work of marital infidelity: as soon as he arrives at home, he tells his wife (Siri Forburg), who does not see things naturally in the same way.
What comes out of this impulsive act and its repercussions, as well as exploring the coincidence of the trust of the unused femininity within it, is a complex but easy study of how men want to see it, their desire and understand it in a culture that still puts a lot of focus on their active view. The sweeping of chimney is not suspected of sexual sexual intercourse in the wake of his strange meeting – “One of the beer does not make me addicted to alcohol”, as he told his unprotected wife – but he feels joyful that he is required in this way, so far abroad. The limits of his life are a traditional family man. For the other man, in the meantime, those who initially share dreams initially showed the restrictions of male expectations and self -images, through his increasingly liberated performance in a local choir.
The writing of Haugerud is studied and sparkling with fundamental ideas, but they are also delights in crying transfers and radiant tales-some of which illuminate topics on hand, while others highlight the eccentric deviation of humans in general. Better of all, he takes his characters with their word, without judgment or scoring satirical points. In some sense, the world of “sex” is a type of SCANDI – which DP Cecilie Semec with brightness is permanent The local dealt at home. This may hit some viewers more progressive, or more fictional, than others. But as an intellectual experience, and indeed the experience of the body, it is unexpectedly attractive.