Dreams

Fifteen year old Johanne falls in love with her French teacher and writes it down in a notebook. When her mother and grandmother get hold of the text they fall into an entirely different argument: is this literature, did it happen, should it be published. That is the idea. A young person's feeling turns into material in the hands of two adults. The grandmother debates its poetic value, the mother tries to work out what happened to her daughter, and neither of them asks the actual question, which is what the girl herself wants. It closes Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo trilogy, alongside Sex and Love. It won the Golden Bear at the seventy fifth Berlin film festival, the first Norwegian film to do so. The difficulty is that it consists almost entirely of talk, nothing happens, and much of it is carried by voiceover. Who it is for: viewers who like Scandinavian drama built on dialogue. Who it is not for: anyone wanting incident and visual storytelling.