Haugerud’s gift for creating fleshed-out, mult idimensional characters is on show once again, as is his knack for getting under the skin of the city: if there’s love in this film, it’s as much for Oslo as it is for other people.

It is a thoroughly grownup and absorbing drama, acted with such sympathy and warmth, a ruminative and exploratory movie of ideas, and one that pays its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent beings.

The ease and the seriousness with which each exchange builds to the suggestion of sex (or further relations) is often charming.

Haugerud paints a colorful picture of human relationships, in line with a present in which the heteronormative model is just one option among many. [Full review in Spanish]