EL PAÍS offers a preview of the most recent film by Norwegian filmmaker Maria Sødahl, which is scheduled to premiere on January 22 in Spain.
Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgard play
Hope
as a married couple whose life together is undone when the wife is diagnosed with brain cancer and given only three months to live, news that she decides not to share with the rest of her family.
The film, based on the director's own personal story, will represent Norway in the next race for a 2021 Oscar nomination for Best International Film.
The feature film, which premiered in 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was screened at the Berlinale, has already won two nominations, for Hovig for best actress and Sødahl for best director, at the European Film Awards.