A small-town hairdresser learns that love in the city comes with split ends.
An everyday story about a young girl from the countryside and the people she meets when she moves to the big city to train as a hairdresser.
Acting
Mette Munk Plum's guarded vulnerability carries every frame.
Direction
August's restrained humanism before his international breakthrough.
Director
Bille August
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bille August made this television film four years before winning the Palme d'Or for Pelle the Conqueror, already displaying his signature compassion for working-class characters.
The film captures 1980s Copenhagen's social housing and emerging service economy, a rarely documented transition period in Danish cinema.
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