A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He contacts Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who will become his mouthpiece and articulate what is wrong. But along the way the director becomes distracted by another person, a young, fumbling girl reminiscent of himself.
Writing
Script eats its own tail beautifully.
Direction
Haugerud roasting himself for 51 minutes.
Acting
Steenstrup's fumbling origami girl haunts.
Director
Dag Johan Haugerud
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a real Norwegian anthropologist, not an actor—he's essentially playing himself as political mouthpiece turned unexpected co-lead.
Haugerud's entire filmography interrogates Norwegian intellectual male self-image; this is him at his most nakedly autobiographical, literally casting himself as the compromised director.
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