Rakel lives in Oslo with her friend Ingrid.
The outspoken 23-year-old has a talent for drawing and dreams of publishing her own comic strip.
She also likes to have fun in the evening, occasionally consumes drugs and alcohol, is always late for her appointments... After a loss of form, she discovers, horrified, that she is 6 months pregnant.
Rakel doesn't want to be a mother, but it's too late to have an abortion, and she can't count on the child's father for a one-night stand… A period of great uncertainty then begins for her.
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This comedy by Yngvild Sve Flikke uses animated overlay, featuring Ninjababy, an animated character from the heroine's sketchbook and an allegory of her relationship with this unwanted fetus.
Ninjababy interjects throughout the footage puts Rakel through hell.
The latter, very sarcastic, comments on the events of her life aside.
The tone is by turns grotesque, romantic or vulgar.
A generational story with an energetic rhythm, just like its main character, full of life.
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The Children of Others
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Audience award at the South by Southwest 2021 festival in Austin and that of Angers, selected for the Berlinale program, this Norwegian film, resolutely feminist, questions the maternal instinct, the taboos on the dictates of motherhood , and the refusal to be a mother.
The director thus wants to denounce the immense pressure that weighs on pregnant women, but in a light way, without pathos.
Ninjababy
is a film of our time that tells in a very modern way one of the oldest stories in the world, that of a young girl trapped.
And determined to get out.