After librarian Isolde attempts suicide, she leaves her politician husband for a younger student with a dark past. Isolde's former husband, however, has something else in mind for the young man.
Direction
Jytte Rex builds dread through domestic stillness.
Acting
Pia Vieth's silences say everything.
Director
Jytte Rex
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of too few Danish films by women in the 1980s; Rex funded it partly through state arts subsidies that rarely supported such raw domestic material.
The title nods to Tristan and Isolde — but here the lovers don't die together, they slowly suffocate in separate rooms.
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