BEGINNINGS

Five years after the astonishing Wildland (61st TIFF), a unique drama that secured distribution in our country during the pandemic, Jeanette Nordahl returns, one more time, to the Scandinavian tradition of the chamber drama, only to revamp it and take it to new heights. Her beacon is the ultimate star of Danish cinema, Trine Dyrholm, known to the festival audience for the Oscar-nominated The Girl with the Needle, in yet another once-in-a-lifetime role. A dissolving marriage seems to let loose Aeolus’s winds for Ane and Thomas, who are about to get divorced, even though their children are unaware. Thomas is ready to move in with his new partner, when Ane suddenly suffers a stroke. Until she recovers, the soon-to-be-divorced couple decide to live together again under the same roof. As they face this new reality, they discover hope in the most unexpected of ways. Direct, daring, tender and relentless, the filmmaker’s mature gaze traces the inexhaustible.