I am traveling alone

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Movie
German title I am traveling alone
Original title Jeg travel alene
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 2011
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Stian Kristiansen
script Gates Renberg
production Yngve Sæther
music Gisle Tveito
camera Philip Øgaard
cut Lars Apneseth
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The man who loved Yngve

I travel alone (Original title: Jeg reiser alene ) is a Norwegian drama film from 2011 and the sequel to The Man Who Loved Yngve  (2008). In 2012 a third part appeared (original title Kompani Orheim ), which has not yet been shown in Germany.

action

The film is set in Bergen (Norway) in 1996 . Jarle, 25, is a literature student with lots of parties and alcohol. One day he receives a letter declaring him the father of Charlotte Isabel Hansen , a seven-year-old girl. In addition, his mother, whom he only knows from a one-night stand , writes to him that she has now taken care of the girl long enough. Jarle now has to look after the child for a week.

At the same time, Jarle's girlfriend breaks up with him because she has fallen in love with the lecturer Robert. Jarle then leaves Lotte with his neighbor, gets drunk, rioting at his ex-girlfriend and returns completely drunk and in the middle of the night. Jarle's fellow students have a lot more empathy for the almost seven-year-old and call Jarle's mother to help. She goes on excursions with the girl and quickly takes her granddaughter into her heart. Jarle, too, gradually develops an understanding of the needs of the sentimental girl. Just in time for Lotte's seventh birthday, Lotte's mother Anette appears again on the scene. Everyone celebrates a costume party at which Anette and Jarle even get closer. With Lotte's departure, Jarle now feels it is his responsibility to take his fatherhood seriously. He wants to keep in touch with Anette and Lotte.

background

With music by The Pixies , The Sundays , Pulp and the Swedish band Bob Hund , the mood of the plot time is suitably accompanied. The film was released on DVD on August 24, 2012.

Reviews

Lutz Granert wrote on critic.de : “A busy party animal unexpectedly has to fulfill father duties. That doesn't sound very original, but the Norwegian tragicomedy doesn’t save with surprises and swipes at Marcel Proust’s biography. ”“ The adolescence process of the main character […] is also accompanied by a self-discovery trip, the reality of the spiritualized one by one World around the ivory tower of a university dismantled and culminated in an unspectacular but all the more touching finale. "

Kino.de rated: I travel alone is “A lovable Norwegian tragicomedy with lively characters and a slightly fairytale plot.” It is a “sensitive study full of nuances, a gentle feel-good tendency and so many touching human moments on a level that every connoisseur will click his tongue happily. "

Hans-Jörg Rother from the FAZ said: “Weird owls are popular in Norwegian films. With a loving gesture, they are brought back from their outsider position to society without depriving them of their right to be different. The joke consists mainly in the fine chasing of a character whose solitary eccentricity is accepted as a special facet of being human. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for I am traveling alone . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 013 K).
  2. ↑ I'm traveling alone at kino-zeit.de, accessed on February 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ Lutz Granert: I travel alone - review by critic.de, accessed on February 25, 2019.
  4. ^ Film review at Kino.de , accessed on February 25, 2019.
  5. ↑ Hans-Jörg Rother: Familienkino für Strubbelmenschen at faz.net, accessed on February 25, 2019.