The Cinematheque

Denmark

“Succeeds in making you laugh out loud … A film that is completely its own, without losing the tone of the original book [by Stine Pilgaard].”

Nicki Bruun, Filmmagasinet Ekko

When Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) gets a teaching post in Jutland, he accepts. But all signs suggest that this is hardest felt by his girlfriend Marie (Sofie Torp), who finds her life in Copenhagen hard to give up. Does the town of Velling have any use for a writer who can’t drive, and whose social life doesn’t revolve around a family? And is this relationship really worth the complete uprooting of what she knows? Torp, who also starred in Hygge!, the Danish title from last year’s EUFF, is the centre of the film, playing a woman who feels like every culture-clash joke and relationship conflict could be an incremental step in a plot to ruin her life, unless—through an advice column—she finds a way to carve out a comfortable niche in her picturesque and strange new home.

In Danish with English subtitles