Staff Select The Best Toast to Friendship

The bonds of friendship and love are essential to our lives. It's no stretch to suggest that they're two of the basic needs we experience as individuals. These are the bonds that bind. They unite us but make us fragile. We fear losing the things we love as much as want them initially. It is the job of filmmakers to communicate this duality in all its countless forms is a daunting one but in the rare instances when a film is able to address the complex human emotions with honesty and honesty, it can be a powerful tool for understanding our own emotions. We're now in our Staff Pick premiere, Liv Karin Dahlstrom's "Women&Wine," a comedic analysis of pride, which becomes damaged when confronted by the loss of a friendship. It was given with the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Seattle International Film Festival (full details: I was part of this jury), "Women&Wine" is at once a charming, disorienting, but also powerful portrayal of one woman's desperate attempts to keep her friend.

The film begins by introducing Turid (Marit Andreassen) and Signe (Jeanne Bee) two females of middle age, who have planned extravagant birthday parties to celebrate their mutual friends Grete (Turid Gunnes). An incident that is fun becomes a perceived insult that results in Turid worries that she's no any longer considered to be a good friend as jealousy could be a stumbling block to self-confidence and a hilarious cringeworthy act ensues. An honest and sensitive representation of human relationships The film is a mix of humorous and charming to snarky and heartbreaking. According to Dahlstrom, who co-wrote the script along with Thorkild Schroepf the same incident happened at a gathering hosted by a close acquaintance, and led them to think about the "humor of the vulnerability and vulnerability many people seek to hide from difficult social circumstances. We are both amazingly fascinated by our human brains and what can happen in situations where our emotions take precedence over our rational thinking." For Turid and deluded by the idea that Grete is not worthy of their relationship, this event becomes a last ditch effort to establish their relationship and ascend the ladder of friendship. She falls over herself and other people in the process.

The themes of friendship and jealousy might seem familiar, or seem like the perfect film idea for harmful female friendships Dahlstrom will be sure to avoid melodrama and adopts an unpretentious approach, which focuses on the dynamic performance of her characters and the range of emotions. Inspired by everyday events of little occurrences, Dahlstrom made the decision that "the camera should be able to follow the actors and their action, and not follow about." This is the result: a film that effortlessly flows from scene to scene and reveals the lengths that we'll go to safeguard our friends, and also our pride.

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