Three friends since childhood are trying to work out their complicated relationships. Jonny tries to be best friends with Magnus, Magnus tries to be married to Tuva, and Tuva tries to have sex with Jonny.
Acting
Aksel Hennie's desperate Jonny is painfully relatable.
Direction
Jens Lien finds comedy in excruciating stillness.
Cinematography
Bleak Norwegian countryside as emotional prison.

Director
Jens Lien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aksel Hennie and Fridtjov Såheim reunited in 2011's 'Headhunters,' another tale of desperation.
The film captures early-2000s Norwegian 'kommune' culture: small towns where everyone knows your failures.