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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Wendy Ide

A Human Position review – elegantly restrained Norwegian drama

Amalie Ibsen Jensen, sitting up in bed in a blank blue room looking off into the distance and framed  in a doorway
‘Engulfing sadness’: Amalie Ibsen Jensen in A Human Position. Photograph: PR

Asta’s life in a port town on the west coast of Norway has ground to a halt after a trauma that, like everything in this enigmatic Norwegian-language film, is hinted at rather than overtly explored. A soulful, slow-cinema meditation on a moment of transition for a young female journalist (played by Amalie Ibsen Jensen), A Human Position seems, at first glance, to be a resolutely uneventful piece of film-making. But with its gentle rhythms and understated clues to an engulfing sadness from which Asta is only just emerging, this elegantly restrained drama is astutely observed and, in its quiet way, emotionally profound.

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