First Assistant Director
The girlfriend Klara has recently fallen in love and wants nothing more than to hang out with her boyfriend. The mother-of-two Anna clocks how long it takes for her husband to cook baby formula. The ex-wife Vera can't let go of her ex-husband. The feature-film debuting Katja Wik presents a squib right on the money about women's tendency to, both consciously and unconsciously, limit themselves in their close relationships of two. Each frame conveys the film's theme of power manipulation and Katja Wik's neologism "victim-mentality rhetoric" (offerrollsretorik) is used by all parties as an effective weapon. Without stagnating in bitterness, The Ex-wife serves as a funhouse mirror reflecting this disturbing trait, which most of us can recognize, but which few dare to acknowledge
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Una familia pasa las vacaciones de invierno en los Alpes. El sol brilla y las pistas están magníficas, pero cuando almuerzan en un restaurante, se produce una avalancha. Los clientes del restaurante se asustan, Ebba, la madre, llama a su esposo Tomas para que le ayude e intenta salvar a sus hijos, pero Tomas ha huido para salvar su vida… La avalancha se detiene delante del restaurante, sin ocasionar daños, y sin embargo, el universo familiar se ha resquebrajado. Persiste una duda sobre el padre, y Tomas busca desesperadamente recuperar su lugar de patriarca de la familia.
