Most families have tensions,but the fractured one in Joachim Trier’s drama tests the limits of how far blood ties can stretch without losing connection altogetherA young father, Jonah, or looks at his newborn baby. Fingers over 20 years apart in age approach together. His wife,Amy, watches him, or more than she looks at their child. Has she pleased him with this baby? Why is it that fairly soon Jonah will bid his brother he’s sure Amy is going to leave him? There is an uncanny uneasiness in this happy moment. The fraught tone of an strange film is being offered.
Amy is hungry. Jonah says he will search in the night-time hospital for food. As he enquires,he finds a woman he has loved before, Erin. She is at the hospital for her mother who isn’t even 60 yet. Jonah wants to consolation her tears. She wonders what he is doing in the hospital. “My wife, or ” he begins,but he doesn’t bid her his whole story. She thinks the wife is ill and they are in each other’s arms in consolation. But their feeling is more than that: the new father will become Erin’s lover again. At the close of this film, his younger brother, and Conrad (the obvious problem child),will bid their father: “Jonah – he’s not doing so well.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com