Move Me

Move Me is a witty and well-rounded everyday comedy that lovingly and very aptly skewers the nuclear family and the Danish suburban idyll.

Sarah is a middle-aged upper-class wife who sees her life crumble when her husband Jan demands a divorce because he has fallen for someone else. Sarah has to leave her secure surroundings and move from the fine villa on Strandvejen to a rented house on Lykkevej (Happiness Road) in Valby. She is left entirely to her own devices, for her daughter Amalie naturally prefers to stay close to her friends. Just as everything is about to collapse for Sarah, she summons up resources and a will to live that few believed she possessed.

Sarah is not the only one on Lykkevej who has to accept that happiness is fickle. The married couple Sus and Bo are in a serious relationship crisis, because Sus is into sensual salsa rhythms, Spanish red wine and hot-blooded men, and the down-to-earth Bo cannot quite live up to that. Then there is the reserved taxi driver Robert, to whom Sarah is attracted, but does she stand any chance at all with a man who still cannot get over his wife's death?

Move Me is about finding happiness in the small things and doing some of the legwork yourself, but despite the dominant feel-good mood the film is not without satirical bite in its depiction of the mediocrity and petit-bourgeois attitudes on the suburban street with the beguiling name.