Where:
Scandinavian Cultural Center & Library
206 Waltham St
West Newton, MA 02465
Admission:
$10
Categories:
Movies, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://scandicenter.org/event/screening-loveable-elskling/
Presented as the Library’s January film pick: Loveable (2024)
Loveable is an interpersonal film about a break-up, but also a woman´s opportunity for self-knowledge, growth and having to deal with unconscious and dysfunctional patterns in herself.
While Sigmund is always away on business, Maria juggles her career with childcare and managing the home. Like many other relationships, theirs was also all about love and harmony in the early stages, however, after years of married life, the cracks started to appear. Sigmund is ultimately the one to ask for a divorce, and Maria is forced to confront her greatest fears. While ostensibly a divorce drama, this debut by writer-director Lilja Ingolfsdottir nevertheless takes us further, delivering a multilayered character study of a woman experiencing a crisis that leads her to self-knowledge. Loveable isn’t a story about the quest for true love; on the contrary, it takes a fresh approach to examine contemporary ideas of romance, equality within the relationship, and the power of womanhood.
Directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir, Loveable (Elskling), received its world premiere as part of the Crystal Globe main competition, won an five awards at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. As well as the Special Jury Prize and the Award for Best Actress (for Helga Guren), the film received the Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award, the FIPRESCI Jury Award, and the Ecumenical Jury Award.
Saturday, January 11th | 1pm | $10; $5 for members | Tickets
In Norwegian with English subtitles | Drama | 100 minutes
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