Sick of Myself (2022)
(Syk pike)
Country: NOR/SV/DK/FR
Technical: col 95m
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Cast: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager
Synopsis:
The needy girlfriend of an egocentric contemporary artist finds herself unable to live in his shadow and, when a woman is mauled by a dog outside her cafe, decides to disfigure herself to get attention.
Review:
A timely satire on the vanity of our age, where to be on a magazine cover or at the top of a news feed is viewed as the ultimate arbiter of self-worth, and in which the mass media give the oxygen of publicity to people who think the world owes them a living. Signe's disease, like Richard E. Grant's carbuncle in How to Get Ahead etc., is a metaphor that ultimately displaces her completely, and the film takes on a Buñuelian logic as she experiences vivid fantasies of each twist in her self-piteous odyssey, until the viewer is left as unsure as the other characters of the line between truth and fiction.
(Syk pike)
Country: NOR/SV/DK/FR
Technical: col 95m
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Cast: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager
Synopsis:
The needy girlfriend of an egocentric contemporary artist finds herself unable to live in his shadow and, when a woman is mauled by a dog outside her cafe, decides to disfigure herself to get attention.
Review:
A timely satire on the vanity of our age, where to be on a magazine cover or at the top of a news feed is viewed as the ultimate arbiter of self-worth, and in which the mass media give the oxygen of publicity to people who think the world owes them a living. Signe's disease, like Richard E. Grant's carbuncle in How to Get Ahead etc., is a metaphor that ultimately displaces her completely, and the film takes on a Buñuelian logic as she experiences vivid fantasies of each twist in her self-piteous odyssey, until the viewer is left as unsure as the other characters of the line between truth and fiction.
(Syk pike)
Country: NOR/SV/DK/FR
Technical: col 95m
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Cast: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager
Synopsis:
The needy girlfriend of an egocentric contemporary artist finds herself unable to live in his shadow and, when a woman is mauled by a dog outside her cafe, decides to disfigure herself to get attention.
Review:
A timely satire on the vanity of our age, where to be on a magazine cover or at the top of a news feed is viewed as the ultimate arbiter of self-worth, and in which the mass media give the oxygen of publicity to people who think the world owes them a living. Signe's disease, like Richard E. Grant's carbuncle in How to Get Ahead etc., is a metaphor that ultimately displaces her completely, and the film takes on a Buñuelian logic as she experiences vivid fantasies of each twist in her self-piteous odyssey, until the viewer is left as unsure as the other characters of the line between truth and fiction.