Hope - Reviews

...an intimate drama in which two stars, Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård, put on a clinic of how to play people used to deadlines, pressures from all sides, facing the worst thing any of us face — the end.

...it’s about love, grief and intimacy and it is conceived at a high creative standard.

...a tiny treasure, an honestly realised character study about the way a terminal illness reverberates around a family.

...a sneakily profound portrait of marriage and mortality whose emotional heft is unpeeled in delicate but devastating layers.

The effect of “Hope” is anything but depressing; it’s reassuring proof of art’s ability to comfort as it clarifies.

Outhärdligt fängslande skådespeleri...

Årets bästa nordiska film.

...en realistisk menneske- og parforholdsskildring af fineste skuffe.

Kunst og virkelighed smelter her sammen på en måde, så det bliver alment interessant og givende.

Regissören Maria Sødahl berättar delvis sin egen historia, starkt gestaltad av lysande Andrea Bræin Hovig i lyhört samspel med Stellan Skarsgård.

...mesterligt fotograferet af danske Manuel Alberto Claro, som inviterer os ind i den dybt personlige fortælling med nærbilleder, der højner intimiteten.

...finstämd, enkel men djup, och passar den som funderar över livets alla toppar och dalar.