“Oslo Stories: Love” in the cinema – life is short enough

“Are you always like that? So nice? ”The lonely prostate cancer patient Bjørn cannot believe that nurse gate his outside of the service. Tor’s answer: “Yes, life is short enough.”

The viewer also marveled at the words and deeds of the film staff in “Love”, the last part of Dag Johan Hauberud’s trilogy “Oslo Stories”, which comes into German cinemas in the opposite order. “Love” begins with the disturbed face of a patient to whom the urologist Marianne transmits bad news. When Tor Traut to note that the person concerned did not understand anything of their explanations, the doctor reacts very differently than can be reflected. Together they bring the man who is in shock back into the consulting room. It should not often happen that hospital staff with so much empathy and time expenditure devotes themselves to a single fate and doctors reward the interference of a nurse: “I am so grateful to you that you addressed this.”

This is the basis of trust on which Marianne gate reveals completely different things when she happened to meet on a ferry between an island and the city in the Oslo fjord at night. He is literally cruising and grinding here, but not only appreciates the non -binding of sexual adventures on neutral soil, but also the romance and closeness that arises in post -coital conversations with strangers. It was dirty and beautiful. There he also had an eye on the psychologist Bjørn, whom he receded in the clinic – it is the only figure that also appears in the other two parts of the trilogy.

The Norwegian writer and director Dag Johan Hauberud understands “love” as utopia.

Tor’s love life is again an inspiration for Marianne, who also changes through her everyday life with an enviable openness. As her friend, the historian Heidi, wants to couple her and even sparks it as planned between her and a geologist, she evades Heidi’s horror bond (and also solidarity with his alcoholic ex).

Just like the spectators together with Marianne listen to a short lecture by the geologist about Oslos rock history, they are at Heidis Queerer city tour that wants to make sexual references in the historical sculptures around the old town hall to a committee for the 100th anniversary of Oslos (supported by Cecilie Semecs indulgential and quite local patriotic camera). The committee rejects its queer feminist approach and rejects Heidi to break around with the egomaniac Norwegian star writer Karl Ove Knausgård.

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Is Haubereud a naive filmmaker like Ken Loach, whose protagonist remain morally sublime despite all adversities? The Norwegian writer and director leaves no doubt that he sees “love” as utopia. And that is more open and progressive than the simple messages of a Ken Loach. Haubereud is “love”, “from the pursuit of sexual and emotional proximity to others, without absolutely adhering to social norms and conventions, regulating relationships”.

It is not just aesthetic enjoyment to be involved in discussions about various life and love models in every respect. While CIS-wife Marianne turns from the monogamy, the supposedly fluttering gays turns out to be reliable and binding. “You don’t have to come back,” says Björn after his operation. “You have to have more confidence in the people,” says Tor, and goes to bed with the disgruntled one.

»Oslo Stories: Liebe”, Norwegen 2022. MIT: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Thomas Gullestad, Lars Jacob Holm. 119 min. Kinostart: 17.4.