Reflective Encounters

“How do you stay yourself when sharing your life with another? From the very beginning, a hint of two worlds built in parallel is revealed through mirrored images of nature scrolling in the opening credits, both reflecting and opposing itself. Very quickly, human bodies – those of two women – fill the space and the dialogue. But through their words, an implicit tension remains.

Between dreams (or nightmares) and reality, a stillness – one of a quiet daily life in Scandinavian nature – intermingles with turmoil. The disturbed night visions and the unspoken words of two individuals who seem to cohabit the same space gives the scenes a claustrophobic atmosphere. What can you give and what would you like to keep for yourself? How can you deal with keeping to your own comfort zone while embracing the wish of sharing a common space – physically or mentally – with a lover?

With great care in the cinematography, director Hilke Rönnfeldt and DoP Roxana Kore Reiss play with the camera movements to capture moments on the spot, within the spontaneous split-seconds of life. With great touches of oneirism, the atmosphere stays appealing both in sound and image, as bodies and minds bind and break.”

— Florian Fernandez