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Sick of Myself

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Sick of Myself

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Black comedy starring Kristine Kujath Thorp and Eirik Saether. Oslo barista Signe is jealous of the publicity her artist partner is getting, and uses an obscure medication to fake a terrible skin disease to get attention. But how long can she keep up the lie?

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Kevin Harley

A young woman's obsession with social media status takes a queasy turn in this broad, bold satire of modern narcissism. Kristine Kujath Thorp plays Signe, an Oslo barista locked in competition for validation with her hipster artist partner (Eirik Sther), who thinks nothing of lying to keep herself a centre of attention. When she hears of Russian anxiety medications with grim side effects, Signe buys in bulk and overdoses, pursuing disfigurement as the price of fame. Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli (The Drama) presents an unsettling, if obvious, skewering of fixations on self-image. Body-horror conceits and flashes of black humour help develop his provocative pitch, suggesting a hybrid of David Cronenberg, early Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) and Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In. But Thorp is Borgli's main asset. By making her craven exhibitionist both blithely awful and oddly relatable, Thorp focuses the film as an arresting study of errant humanity.

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7.1/10

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Cast

rolenameSigneKristine Kujath ThorpThomasEirik SaetherMarteFanny VaagerEmmaSarah Francesca BraenneYngveFredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen

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rolenameDirectorKristoffer Borgli

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Theatrical distributor

Modern Films

Released on

2023-04-21

Languages

English | Norwegian | Swedish

Guidance

swearing, sex scenes, drug abuse, nudity

Formats

Colour

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