Loveable

Maria is only recently divorced and now looks after the two children from that broken marriage alone. Actually, her mind is not on a new relationship, but when she meets the attractive Sigmund at a party, she knows she wants him. At first, he doesn't even notice her, but Maria perseveres and eventually manages to win him over: they marry. And with him she also has two children. After seven years, however, the fire is quite extinguished; her biggest annoyance: he is always going his own way, sometimes away for weeks at a time, leaving her to take care of the children. And that while she too has a busy job. After a heated argument, Sigmund suggests they get a divorce. Where did things go wrong?

Norwegian director Lilja Ingolfsdottir, in this self-written and now critically acclaimed feature debut, focuses on a relationship in which blame, inability and regret are central. It is an intense but nowhere heavy love drama, carried by an excellent cast.