“Under Hypnosis”, the first film by the Swedish Ernst by Geer, the acerbic satire of “cool” liberalism

A hypnosis session changes the life of a couple. Consequently, Caustic, this film questions the social roles that we assign, consciously or not.

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ANdré and Vera form a couple of young entrepreneurs. Similarly, They set up a start-up together which offers a virtuous application devoted to the health of women. Moreover, They look in love, accomplices, perhaps a little naive, not always confident, especially Vera, a little inhibited. Something will however change in the latter’s attitude, following a therapeutic hypnosis session to quit smoking. Selected for a call for tenders in front of investors, the couple finds themselves faced with a crisis.

We all know the simplifying advice ” Be yourself! ». The author has fun with this notion of identity, true or false, unique or multiple. Increasingly relaxed. asserted, Vera gradually upsets her companion and questions, on its scale, the established “under hypnosis”, first film swedish order, revealing the grotesque and odious part of each other, during these days of brainstorming and professional competition. Acerbic. Under hypnosis is a satire that recalls the cinema of the Swedish Ruben Östlund as well as the wacky Toni Erdmann German Maren Ade. Through this singular try. the young director (Swedish too) demonstrates a real talent in his way of establishing discomfort, of public embarrassment. He is helped in this by the finesse of the two performers. Asta Kamma August and Herbert Nordrum – noticed in Julie (in 12 chapters) The Joachim Trier.

The film is not limited to the acid criticism of a cool form of triumphant liberalism. Ernst de Geer questions the relationship to work and. more broadly, the social roles in the group, the family, the couple. What do we ready to play, for whom and why? Are we lucid or not on this game? And “under hypnosis”, first film swedish when does a lie become compromising? Under hypnosis Cache, under its biting varnish, an initiation story all the more subtle as the end remains open. Very clever the one who can say whether the couple will hold or not.