Reviews

I loved this film, it made me immediately immerse in it as a whole experience, because of the unusual form of documentary it is (partly self-biographical and biographical). The freedom from dogmatic styles of documentary is in it self a reflection of the free personalities in this story.

The main character (narrator) has undoubtedly a lot of artistic sense and integrity, so forceful, that it was possible for the instructor to extrapolate the wholeness and the details of this film from the source that was already there.

The norwegian and the british mutual underplayed sense of humor goes beautifully and convincingly well together in this existential questioning of life choices and values.

It is a true art the way this film is able to be light and dark, life-affirming and sad, humble and humbling, personal and yet so universal. It is a fantastic portrait of childhood and the human personal growth that keeps unfolding, how we learn and how we belong to something. My absolute biggest recommendations.

I found this film to disappoint me in several ways.

I am Norwegian, living abroad and the only thing I miss in my life is to have more nature experiences. I would have expected this film to move me, and make me want to dream about moving to a beautiful place. Instead it made me realize how important it is to be an active part of the civil society and give your best to others.

The overly personal and isolated story of this couple, seems navel-gazing and excluding, a bad trait of Norwegians in general, although the portrait of the main character in the film is sympathetic.

The pictures are beautiful, but the story is simple and lacks courage, edge and generosity.

Maybe my disappointment of the film has to do with me being gen-y public, whilst the film made by an gen-x instructor and writer romanticizing her silent generation parents, who are fine with being indulging in their secluded and privileged beautiful surroundings that they don't need to share or fight for.