Despite kooky touches including a talking foetus, this is an insightful look at a young woman’s life
This hilarious and sneakily brilliant comedy from Norway begins like half a dozen unwanted-pregnancy movies you might already have seen. Rakel (Kristine Kujath Thorp) is a 23-year-old graphic design dropout who has not remotely got her life together yet. When she discovers she’s pregnant, she books a termination: “This is Norway. I can get an abortion.” The baby’s father goes with her, endearingly dorky aikido teacher Mos (Nader Khademi), with whom she had a one-night stand. At the clinic Rakel is appalled to discover she’s actually seven months gone – she’s had no symptoms, no bump, no nausea. She’s beyond the limit. Mos is out of the picture as daddy.
Director Yngvild Sve Flikke, who co-wrote the script based on an acclaimed graphic novel by Inga Sætre, craftily...
This hilarious and sneakily brilliant comedy from Norway begins like half a dozen unwanted-pregnancy movies you might already have seen. Rakel (Kristine Kujath Thorp) is a 23-year-old graphic design dropout who has not remotely got her life together yet. When she discovers she’s pregnant, she books a termination: “This is Norway. I can get an abortion.” The baby’s father goes with her, endearingly dorky aikido teacher Mos (Nader Khademi), with whom she had a one-night stand. At the clinic Rakel is appalled to discover she’s actually seven months gone – she’s had no symptoms, no bump, no nausea. She’s beyond the limit. Mos is out of the picture as daddy.
Director Yngvild Sve Flikke, who co-wrote the script based on an acclaimed graphic novel by Inga Sætre, craftily...
- 9/8/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
This enjoyably offbeat Norwegian comedy drama, that premiered in SXSW and is showing at Edinburgh Film Festival uses animation to accentuate the emotional experience of the hard partying Rakel. What's to come is signalled by a sketch of the home she shares with her flatmate Ingrid (Tora Christine Dietrichson), which brands Rakel's room Trash-o-rama.
She might be a hot mess but Rakel's also ambitious, with her sketches indicating her desires include being a comic book artist and an astronaut. What she doesn't want to be, however, is heavily pregnant - and given how flat her stomach is, it's no wonder it comes as a shock.
Once Rakel realises it's too late to have an abortion, she begins to have conversations with her "stealthy" unborn ninjababy, who pops up in hand-drawn and, later,...
She might be a hot mess but Rakel's also ambitious, with her sketches indicating her desires include being a comic book artist and an astronaut. What she doesn't want to be, however, is heavily pregnant - and given how flat her stomach is, it's no wonder it comes as a shock.
Once Rakel realises it's too late to have an abortion, she begins to have conversations with her "stealthy" unborn ninjababy, who pops up in hand-drawn and, later,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s Rakel’s (Kristine Kujath Thorp) best friend and roommate Ingrid (Tora Christine Dietrichson) who first notices that something is amiss. Rakel is suddenly ravenous for fruit juice, averse to anything smelly, and she’s definitely gained some weight. The twentysomething Norwegian pals like to have their fun, but Rakel seems particularly wild — an opening animation that maps out the girls’ apartment points to Ingrid’s pin-neat bedroom, compared to Rakel’s “trash-o-rama” room — but who cares? Rakel might be a little spacey and immature, but she’s only in charge of herself. …Right?
By the time Rakel wises up to the reason behind her weight gain and weird cravings in Yngvild Sve Flikke’s “Ninjababy,” it’s far too late to do anything about it. Playing like something of a gender-swapped “Knocked Up” — imagine if it was Seth Rogen’s weed-smoking, shiftless Ben who was pregnant in Judd Apatow’s comedy,...
By the time Rakel wises up to the reason behind her weight gain and weird cravings in Yngvild Sve Flikke’s “Ninjababy,” it’s far too late to do anything about it. Playing like something of a gender-swapped “Knocked Up” — imagine if it was Seth Rogen’s weed-smoking, shiftless Ben who was pregnant in Judd Apatow’s comedy,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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