As you read this is a half hour short film, uncompromisingly depicting the last three days in the life of a woman. We observe her trough an almost static camera, inside her apartment. With its insisting angle and carefully composed frame of light and colours the film can almost remind of a painting, where an alarming story is being told.
Eva is a successful and serious-working journalist, good looking with a loving boyfriend. The depiction of her home reveals a creative atmosphere in a “Berliner-altbau” apartment. Counterpointing this ‘still frame’, which constitutes Eva’s reality, are the sounds of everyday-life outside – children running in the stairs, the newspaper arriving through the door slot, traffic and people in the streets, a drunken man singing, a woman shouting. The everyday-liveliness from outside re-enforces the isolation Eva has set herself in, as she approaches the point of no return. Carefully stripping the story of drama, sentimentality and the preconceived ugliness of an unhappy life – what remains for the audience to observe, to identify with? This is not a film about “the others”. Nor does it give any answers, but it raises questions around a subject which has increasing actuality in Western society.
director Jannicke Låker / DoP Hilde Malme / sound Erik Ljunggren / set design Olav Myrtvedt / consultants Per Teljer, Bo Krister Wallström, Egil Kolstø / producer Helga Fjordholm / / Fjordholm Film Production/
Distribution Norwegian Film Institute /Jannicke Låker & Fjorholm Productions © 2011
