Movie Review: “All that beautiful” – VG

Demanding and fearless but slightly splayed film about a turbulent relationship.

DRAMA

“All the beautiful”

Norway. For all. Director: Aasne Vaa Greibrokk. With: Magnus Krepper, Anne Elenora Jorgensen, Kristoffer Joner, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Emil Johnsen, Marte G. Christensen Preben Hodneland, Isabel Toming.

There is no lack of ambition in Aasne Vaa Greibrokks feature film debut. There is also no shortage of good actors. But to wind up together a tale of a turbulent love life as seen through the three acts in a play, with several putting actors in the “starring” is demanding.

Pieces fall nicely together towards the end, but along the way are story somewhat disjointed. It takes time before we get under the skin of the two it’s all about; Sarah and David.

In short, it’s about a writer who sits on the cabin and will summarize the best aspects of their lives; the long cohabitation with Sarah. This should be a play, and David must have mediated Sarah – which he left ten years earlier – to get back into the core of a relationship from the very beginning was marked by being a project.

“project” was that they should not marry, but stay together – and that Sarah, who also wanted to fuck other men than David, should retain their lovers in peace. This sounded like a straightforward matter for both when they were 23; young and liberated as they were.

But as the years go by tearing the somewhat naive idealism, and the destructive forces take over. Sarah who had a dream of being a symbol of the sexually liberated woman, and that this should be conveyed through David’s writings, realize that she increasingly becomes a “project” in her husband’s life. The conversations become more aggressive, the same applies to the consumption of wine and cigarettes. Irony and bitter words replaces respect and intimacy.

Danske Ann Elenora Jørgensen and Swedish Magnus Krepper convinces well as the couple who meet again. They convey skepticism, doubt and eventually a heartfelt tenderness that characterizes two people who have lived their lives – and survived the bitter undertones.

The choice of wood skuespillerpar to play the two different phases in life are smart; development and change in the relationship stressed and they complement each other. More than really explain the obsessive in the relationship, there are subtle moods that emphasizes their proximity.

Sometimes marked by theater a little conspicuous, particularly in some rejoinder guide that has a clear literary approach. Admittedly, it is about a writer and his intelligent partner – and if a play – but wording gives sometimes reminiscent of a scene staging.

A strong relasjonsdsrama ala playwright Lars Norén is not this, but it is encouraging to see a young Norwegian filmmaker with ambitions to create film drama that requires something of you.

Borghild Maaland