Johan Brisinger is making a divorce comedy about love and a new life
- The Swedish director is shooting his new film, I Love You – A Divorce Comedy, in Stockholm with Swedish actors Christine Meltzer and Björn Kjellman in the leads
Five years after his latest feature, Among Us [+see also:
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Scripted by Brisinger, together with Mikael Södersten and Martina Haag, the film is about a 44-year-old woman, Marianne, who has been living in a conventional, no-sex marriage with her lawyer husband Gustaf for far too long. She decides to divorce, separate, or at least have a trial separation.
Gustaf (Björn Kjellman) doesn’t understand a thing about this; while Marianne throws herself into the single life, he is completely unsympathetic towards the change, and in his confusion he makes a strange career decision: he resigns himself to writing poetry. Tensions rise between parents, children and friends as Marianne (Christine Meltzer) – after a failed attempt with a young man – ends up with Rodolfo, a thrilling, impulsive (and horny) artist, while Gustaf strikes up a seemingly impossible relationship with a bike messenger.
StellaNova producer Lena Rehnberg, whose 2013 production of Per Fly’s Waltz for Monica [+see also:
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