A shut-in meets his sexual awakening via his dad's tenant. What could go wrong? Everything. Hilariously.
Overweight loner Rino spends his days in seclusion, until his dad rents a room to an overtly sexual girl who challenges Rino to break down his walls.
Acting
Kaalstad's physical comedy is agonizingly precise.
Direction
Fröhlich walks the knife-edge of empathy and exploitation.
Writing
Dialogue so awkward you'll pause to recover.
Director
Arild Fröhlich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Norwegian cinema's 2000s wave loved awkward male losers—this fits between 'Elling' and 'The Bothersome Man' in that lineage.
Director Fröhlich later disowned the marketing, which sold it as pure sex comedy rather than its darker character study.
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