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I Belong

Original title: Som du ser meg
  • 20122012
  • 1h 58m
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6.8/10
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I Belong (2012)
ComedyDrama
What happens to us when people stop acting like they're supposed to? A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromi... Read allWhat happens to us when people stop acting like they're supposed to? A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly wo... Read allWhat happens to us when people stop acting like they're supposed to? A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a re... Read all
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6.8/10
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    • Dag Johan Haugerud
    • Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Stars
    • Andrine Sæther
    • Jan Gunnar Røise
    • Laila Goody
    • Dag Johan Haugerud
    • Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Stars
    • Andrine Sæther
    • Jan Gunnar Røise
    • Laila Goody
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    • 3Critic reviews
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    Andrine Sæther
    • Forfatteren
    Jan Gunnar Røise
    Jan Gunnar Røise
    • Instruktøren
    Laila Goody
    • Lise Gundersen
    Henriette Steenstrup
    • Ann-Kristin
    Ragnhild Hilt
    • Grete Maigret
    Trine Wiggen
    • Avdelingssykepleier
    Fridtjov Såheim
    Fridtjov Såheim
    • Lises mann
    Ada Sophie Bakk Haug
    • Lises datter
    Birgitte Larsen
    • Siri Helene Kvernland
    Eva Dons
    • Anne Mona Lerkevåg
    Julianne Lauritzen
    • Sykepleier
    Thomas Underhaug Fosseli
    • Sykepleier
    Iver Innset
    • Mads
    Andrea Bræin Hovig
    Andrea Bræin Hovig
    • Anne Hagen
    Lukas Andreassønn Utnem
    • Anne Hagens baby
    Marita Holmeset-Varpe
    • Resepsjonist
    Hans-Jørgen Osnes
    • Arne Hagen
    Shaun Henrik Matheson
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    7/10
    The trouble of unwillingly hurtful misunderstood communication
    Have you ever talked to persons you really have trouble communicating with?

    I belong ("Som du ser meg", which really translates into "As you see me") is a funny film about a serious topic - the complexity of communication and understanding, with real female drive. The film is originally written and told, and extremely well directed by Dag Johan Haugerud. His first feature, formerly directing documentaries.

    We meet some women living very different lives, and in different parts of the same apartment building in outer Oslo. A story of women which ends up hurting each other without willing to do so, told in an interesting way, by the writer Eva Cecilie, reading her audio-book "When you least expect it" on to tape in a sound studio. A brilliantly cast of female actors are making this a very interesting film, which recently won several prizes in the national critics Kanon-prize at Trondheim international Film Festival.

    Lise is a nurse, which enjoys work, but are not to eager to get out of her safe working situation, but feels forced to say yes to be teaching new employees. And when she gets nervous, like when she has to correct the nurse she's training, she switches from speaking Norwegian into English. This gets her into trouble, and ruins her comfort.

    Grete is translator, and an older woman, and was raped when she was 16, which forced her to change her school and name. She's come along way, but is not prepared when her self-consciousness is torn down when she meets her new publisher.

    Ann-Kristin is pregnant, and visiting an aunt together with her poor and mildly difficult mother, which keeps borrowing money from her due to economically problems, and having typically mother - daughter communications. At the meeting she is offered a million of a large inheritance, complicating the conversation immensely.

    Interesting premises, and it's funny how one can recognize the way the tragic understanding of communication leads to funny, insulting and hurtful situations. The film is in a way complex, with typical female communication of small and large subjects, which the brilliant cast makes a gem out of.

    I enjoyed the predicaments, and the storytelling which in a funny way doesn't turn out nothing less than tragic. Very talented filmmaking and acting, with a very suitable music score. I'd like it to be longer than it was.
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      • September 14, 2012 (Norway)
      • Norway
      • Norwegian
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      • Oslo, Norway
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      • Motlys
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