English

Anja og Viktor

2001 · 90 min.

5 out of 8

Review

Machine-translated from Danish.

Anja & Viktor is a perfectly competent sequel to "Kærlighed ved første hik". The second instalment is more quirky than knee-slappingly funny, but it also tries harder to be a serious film about what happens when love is no longer so new. What happens to love when high-school sweethearts go their separate ways?

Viktor is still at school, while Anja has finished. Now real life awaits. She gets a flat in the middle of Copenhagen and a job at an advertising agency. Peter, Anja's old boyfriend, is still on the warpath, and then there is Anja's boss Tobias, who also turns out to be susceptible to Anja's charms. It is hardly surprising that Viktor grows desperate and rents a room in the same building where Anja lives. Unfortunately her enthusiasm is easy to miss, and it takes no more than a couple of unfortunate misunderstandings before Anja and Viktor's relationship is in deep crisis. How on earth will it end?

The producer Ragner Grasten is both famous and notorious for his popular comedies, and the film cannot leave the genre entirely alone either. The family audience must not be let down, so a couple of silly and cutesy scenes with the two little brothers are used as filler.

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