Sewitsky’s Happy with Sundance Prize
by Annika Pham
Anne Sewitsky’s directorial debut Happy, Happy [+see also:
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The Norwegian film was one of 14 international titles screening in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. “Happy, Happy is a film that found us identifying with characters very different from our own lives,” said one of the jurors, Danish director Susanne Bier, while presenting the award.
Happy, Happy is about a perfect housewife whose rocky, sexless marriage sends her next door to explore sexual fulfilment. The film stars Agnes Kittelsen (Max Manus [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Sewitsky’s second feature, Totally True Love [+see also:
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