‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ Review: Dag Johan Haugerud’s Golden Bear Winner Takes An Unexpected Look At The Mystery Of Desire – Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comRefreshingly unexpected, Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) — the first Norwegian film to win the Berlinale’s Golden Bear — breathes new life into the often oversimplified genre of sexual awakening that seems to draw on his twinned career in both cinema and books.
This headlong, hyper-nuanced account of a teenage girl’s first love fuses the interiority of novels and the sensuous embrace of cinema in ways that other films fumble.
Led by a smartly underplayed performance by Ella Øverbye, this third, stand-alone entry in a trilogy (released in Norway last October) moves engrossingly between her romantic entrancement and insightful commentary, both her own and her family’s.
Seventeen-year-old Johanne (Øverbye) is a subdued, pensive teen who seems swaddled in cozy scarves and the Nordic light, taking in more of the world than she ever says aloud.
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