Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love

The second film in the Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex/Love/Dreams) – a breathtaking troika of thematically connected dramas about human relationships by Norwegian writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud.

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

“Love, to quote that woozy old ballad, is indeed a many-splendored thing that takes many forms — a multiplicity that Love the film is quietly alive to.” ~Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter

”_Love_’s commentary on modern relations may be more complex and chewy than just “live and let live,” but the film’s calm embrace of whatever works for the individual is refreshingly humane, rhetorically exciting and more than a little hot.” ~Guy Lodge, Variety

“A film with a rich complexity of feelings, navigated by people taking full advantage of their own freedoms. It’s the sort of talky European drama that, in its well-expressed thoughtfulness, leaves one feeling strangely refreshed. I’ll happily take two more.” ~Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal