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FROM FRIDAY, AUGUST15th

Marianne (Andrea Braien Hovig), a pragmatic, unattached Oslo doctor specialising in urology, is taking a ferry to a nearby island where she has been set up on a blind date with Ole Harald (Thomas Gullestad), a divorced geologist, when she runs into her nurse colleague Tor (Tayo Citadella Jacobsen), a sexually confident gay man who uses the ferry as a venue for hook-ups arranged on dating apps. Tor, who often spends whole nights on the ferry seeking casual encounters with men, shares his experiences of spontaneous intimacy. Intrigued by his fresh perspective on love, Marianne begins to explore whether casual intimacy could also be an option for her. With Love, Haugerud questions conventions with a wry sense of humour, while treating his characters with compassion, delivering a moving treatise on contemporary relationships.

Notes by David O’Mahony.

See also the other films in the Oslo Stories Trilogy, Dreams and Sex.