By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Maria Sødahl
Starring: Alfred Vatne | Andrea Bræin Hovig | Daniel Storm Forthun Sandbye | Eirik Hallert | Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne | Steinar Klouman Hallert | Stellan Skarsgård
Original language title: Håp
Country: denmark, norway, sweden
Year: 2021
Running time: 130
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9812614/reference
Diane says: “First, nobody warned me that my old heartthrob Stellan Skarsgård had aged so much. Second, I was put off by the elegant lifestyle of this Oslo Brady Bunch, but that’s just me. Director and writer Maria Sødahl draws from her own life for this drama about a middle-aged creative, Anja, who is faced with a devastating cancer diagnosis. The fulcrum of this story is the relationship between Anja and her partner of 20 years and father of her three kids. An older set of three are with them for the holidays, too.