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The Man Who Loved Yngve

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

The Man Who Loved Yngve
País:

Noruega 
Director:

Stian Kristiansen
Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

98 min
Cast:
  • Rolf Kristina Larsen, Ole Christoffer Ertvag, Ida Elise Broch
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Tore Renberg
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Trond Hoines
  • MONTAJE: Vidar Flataukan
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Yngve Saether

Synopsis

Jarle is a typical teenager with a girlfriend, a punk rock band, and a rebellious and defying attitude. But when the new kid, Yngve, arrives to the scene, with his Duran Duran records and his pastel-colored polo shirts, things start to change for everyone. His doubts begin on how to react in front of someone so different and with whom, nonetheless, he seems to have so much in common. And because growing up being different is always complicated (and more so if it's the late 80s in a small Norwegian town), friendship, frowned upon by the rest of his friends, will soon become something more in the most painful manner. With an excellent musical selection (an 80s attack with the best of that decade, but which also provides information and accompanies the story), filled with hits by Joy Division, Buzzcocks, R.E.M., and The Cure, among others, The Man Who Loved Yngve goes over paths already traveled (that of sexual awakening), and although the song remains the same, it confirms that ways of singing it can still attract and entertain.