The other day, when singing the praises of Dag Johan Hargerud's Dreams and his Oslo trilogy, I mentioned that I had loved Dreams so much that I had almost immediately started Love (how all three members of that trilogy all came out in the same year boggles the mind; although, if you're filming actual people talking in actual locations that depend upon CGI nonsense, I guess many things are possible). I don't know if I liked Love as much as Dreams, but that is no critique because I really liked it and also completely recommend it. The action centers around Marianne (Andrea Braein Hovig), a urologist, and her nurse Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen), and her discovery that he takes additional trips on the ferry simply to meet or pickup men, and she begins to wonder if his casual/transitional view of sex might not actually be the best approach, at least for her. By the end of the movie you're not certain that he believes that to be true anymore, but her own sexuality is blossoming while also facing challenges based on her own ideas. The relationships and sex, both heterosexual and homosexual, are handled naturally and sympathetically and beautifully. Again, highly recommended. As I proposed when discussing Haugerud's Dreams, it's so reassuring to watch intelligent films dealing with real issues, when we're surrounded by such crass idiocy.
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