Love on the Brain: Haugerud Caps Trilogy with Teenage Wasteland
With his latest film Dreams (Sex Love) (aka Drømmer), the final installment in his thematic trilogy, Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud clasps his most cohesive segment on a teenage girl’s ineffable, transformative brush with first love. The title of each film in the trilogy can feel misleading as each segment/situation/character is caught up in the intersection of these three states, each designed to reflect on the angle of intention. So perhaps it is most appropriate that the formative stage of desire, which leads to sex and love, begins in the mind of a dreamy seventeen-year-old who is led to comprehend her own awakening by comparing unnamed emotions to those of a fictional girl she first reads about in an obscure French novel.… Read the rest
