{"id":2870,"date":"2009-02-06T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2009-02-06T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:08:18","slug":"the-man-who-loved-yngve-%e2%80%9cmannen-som-elsket-yngve%e2%80%9d-stian-kristiansen-2008-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Loved Yngve \u201cMannen Som Elsket Yngve\u201d (Stian Kristiansen, 2008): Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=276\">Anna Bewe<\/a>. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/yngve2-325x187.jpg\" alt=\"yngve2\" width=\"325\" height=\"187\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1114723\/\" target=_new>The Man Who Loved\u00a0 Yngve<\/a><\/em> is the\u00a0 best film I viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. It\u2019s a heart warming romantic drama that is based on a book by Tore Renberg. The film was fun at the same time as it touched a serious subject \u2013 when love becomes difficult. The film has received 4 awards for the best film, editing, direction and best youth film at the Amanda Awards in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The man who loved Yngve takes place in Stavanger, Norway in the 80\u2019s and is about a guy who gets confused about his own strong feelings for another boy. Jarle (Rolf Kristian Larsen), is the 17 year old boy, who feels attracted to the new boy in his class, Yngve (Ole Christoffer Ertv\u00e5g). At the same time he has his girlfriend that he is in love with \u2013 he can&#8217;t stop thinking about the new boy. The life in Stavanger, the uneventful nights outside the nightclub Checkpoint Charlie, the crush for his girlfriend Cathrine, and the coolest punk band \u201cMathias Rust Band\u201d that he starts together with his best friend Helge \u2013 aren\u2019t essential for Jarle since the day the new student Yngve begun in their class. After that, Jarle starts to let down everyone around him to be with Yngve, and he finds out how it feels to stand alone.<\/p>\n<p>This film made me laugh and cry at the same time, I loved the script and the characters, which were great and original \u2013 they felt genuine. The film takes place in the 80\u2019s and the music and the scenery fits the theme of the 80\u2019s. What I also liked with this film was that the screenplay focuses on how Jarle\u2019s secret crush affects his relationship to his girlfriend and his friends, instead of having a coming out scenario, which are common in movies about this theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Anna Bewe. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The Man Who Loved\u00a0 Yngve is the\u00a0 best film I viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. It\u2019s a heart warming romantic drama that is based on a book by Tore Renberg. The film was fun at the same time as it touched a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}