Acting
Mona Andersson's ferocious, unflinching embodiment of defiance.
Production
Intimate claustrophobia of Ella's lived-in, bathless existence.
Director
Hanne Larsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Larsen shot in the actual apartment of a real woman with similar habits, blurring documentary and fiction.
Part of a wave of 2010s Norwegian shorts interrogating elder care and invisible women — Ella's bath refusal reads as final act of control in a system that wants her clean, contained, compliant.
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