Title is ironic. Two couples, one newcomers, live in adjacent houses in rural Norway. Their lives become intertwined in predictable ways. Early on we learn of tensions in their marriages which leads to cheating, family disruptions, recriminations, reconciliations, etc.
It seems the whole of the human drama is enacted on screen in miniature. The focus on these four people is so close that we get no sense of what the community is like or the other people in it.
One of the players...Agnes Gittelson...lights up the screen. This film should serve as a break-out role for her internationally. A sub-plot involving their children clunks badly and should have been cut.
Other than AG there was nothing fresh, innovative or interesting about this film.
5
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