Sex

Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud
Norway
2024
125 mins

Synopsis

When a modern-day chimneysweep has sex with a man whose chimney he’s, ahem, cleaning, then tells his wife and his colleague, each is forced to question the quirks of sexuality.

One of the hits of Berlinale 2024, Sex climbs atop the high-rises of a Norwegian city to survey the quizzical contemporary landscape of sex, in which monogamy and fluidity make for uneasy bedfellows. Two married and ostensibly heterosexual friends are unmoored when one of them sleeps with a man and the other begins to question the recurring dreams he’s been having, in which David Bowie gazes at him longingly. Dag Johan Haugerud’s film is funny but also sincere and compassionate, playing out in a series of long, winding, highly articulate conversations. They’re captured by a camera that is fittingly unrestricted, floating between characters mid-scene.

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Had your fill of punishing investigations into toxic masculinity? Then the thoughtful questioning, sensitivity, low-key humor and refreshing candour of Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerudu2019s Sex might be your antidote
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

Tickets

Thu 6 June 2024, 8:30am
Ritz Cinemas Randwick - Cinema 5
Assisted ListeningWheelchairSubtitled
Sat 8 June 2024, 7:30am
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3
Assisted ListeningWheelchairSubtitled
  • Year
    2024
  • Country
    Norway
  • Language
    In Norwegian with English subtitles
  • Director
    Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Producer
    Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum
  • Cast
    Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg
  • Screenwriter
    Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Cinematographer
    Cecilie Semec
  • Editor
    Jens Christian Fodstad
  • Genre
    Comedies, Gender & Sexuality, Scandinavia
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    Sales Agent: M-Appeal World Sales
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