BELOVED | FILMS FROM THE FJORDS
November 12—7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
“A love story full of the unspoken, tenderness, and mystery” — On November 12, Scandinavia House presents a special screening to wrap up our Films From the Fjords series: the sparse, beautifully-rendered drama Beloved.
In a small coastal town, Asle and Gerd find each other in a tavern and become parents to a boy, building a seemingly-idyllic life in the crook of the fjord. But soon enough, their perfect love is put to test. Asle, a sailor, is inexorably drawn by the call of the sea, leaving Gerd alone with the child as distance grows between them. Told in Fosse’s minimalist style, through silence, glances and landscape, the story rests on deep compassion for three lives, and asks how much distance love can endure before it breaks.
Directed by internationally acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe (U-July 22, 2018; Quisling, 2024), BELOVED is an intimate relationship drama based on the only original screenplay by 2023 Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse, whose minimalist and deeply human language shapes a story of love, distance and emotional rupture. Poppe’s precise visual storytelling and profound sensitivity to human vulnerability elevate the narrative into a universal exploration of intimacy, absence and the fragile architecture of family life. The film stars Leo Magnus de la Nuez (Beforeigners, 2019) and Kristi-Helene Giæver Engeberg (War Sailor, 2022).
