MOVIES
“Sick of Myself” (30/6)
Cafe assistant Signe is 30 years old and lacks talent. Her narcissism and jealousy become a driving force to sabotage her boyfriend’s nascent successes. To get more attention, she medicates herself and develops serious skin problems.
Cannes-debuting director and screenwriter Kristoffer Borgli has made an anti-romcom where “body horror” meets Scandinavian realism. On self-actualization through sacrificial capital in the contemporary “inclusive” world of culture and advertising. The film fills the wave of talented Norwegian auteurs in the wake of Joachim Trier.
Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie in the sex comedy “No hard feelings” about a 30-year-old woman who is hired to take 19-year-old Percy’s (Andrew Barth Feldman) virginity.
“No hard feelings” (30/6)
Skabrö’s comedy written by one half of the “Good boys” screenwriting duo. Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, a failed Uber driver who becomes a sex worker when her car is impounded. She answers a personals ad where a couple of helicopter parents want to hire her to “date” their lanky 19-year-old son Percy before he’s sent off to college. The humor seems to play on a contemporary normalization of prostitution and reversed gender stereotypes, making the mission more difficult than Maddie imagined when the young man turns out to be terrified of female touch.
Other premieres
“Harold Fry’s Unexpected Walk” (30/6)
A hike towards a friend’s deathbed leads to insights late in life for the film’s protagonist. From one of the directors behind “Normal people”.
“Body parts – nude scenes in Hollywood” promises a female perspective on nude scenes throughout history. Press photo.
TV/ELECTRICAL FOOD
K Special: “Body parts – Naked scenes in Hollywood” (SVT Play from 1/7)
Documentary about how nude scenes have been portrayed throughout Hollywood history. Interpreted from a female perspective by, among others, Jane Fonda and Rosanna Arquette. Can be a suitable complement to the documentary “This film is not yet rated” (2006) about American cinema censorship and the exceptionally good podcast “You must remember this”, which in its last season dealt with 90s erotica in mainstream film.
Other premieres
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” (Prime Video 6/30)
The fourth and final season of Agent Jack Ryan promises to be the character’s biggest challenge.
“Run rabbit run” (VOD – SF Anytime, iTunes, Viaplay, Google play and Rakuten 3/7)
Ghost horror with Sarah Snook (Shiv from “Succession”), who plays a fertility doctor haunted by her belief that ghosts are bullshit.
“In the middle of hate” (SVT Play 5/6)
A drama thriller about the activist Matthew Collins and his organization Hope not hate, who infiltrate right-wing extremists after a murder of a member of the British Parliament in the open street. Based on real events.