She’s the kind of mother who, when Charlotte meets up with her, will immediately start bragging about her own achievements, never even bothering to ask after her daughter in any way.Ĭharlotte has formed deep-rooted insecurities, leading to her pain and loneliness, which make her desperate and self-destructive. Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s moving, funny, and devastating Homesick - one of the best films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival - opens in a psychiatrist’s office, where Charlotte (the terrific Ine Marie Wilmann) describes her mother as saying she wants to be there, but never really wanting to be there. At Seventh Row, we pride ourselves on seeking out the best hidden gems that nobody’s talking about to ensure that our readers never miss a great film again.Ĭlick here to sign up for regular streaming recommendations of the best under-the-radar films. Homesick review: Anne Sewitsky’s touching and complex film. Homesick is now streaming on Netflix UK.Ĭlick here to read our interview with Sewitsky and lead actress Ine Wilmann. I, too, am of Utopian rebel descent.Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick is moving, funny, and devastating - and one of the best films at Sundance 2015. So I’ll be sharing more of my thoughts in case anyone relates so that they can find even the smallest comfort in the fact that they are in fact not alone. And that feeling of loneliness is a different kind, a kind I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I know there’s multitudes of people like me and this is actually the most common thing because I read books about them and see similarities in movies but I just can’t seem to see anyone around me who is like me sometimes. It stems from a place of insecurity and I’ll never be completely insecure but I’m working not letting my insecurities manifest themselves as toxicity in my relationships. Most of my relationships end this way and I know myself and have learnt myself enough to admit this. My biggest pet peeve is when I’m unable to trust a person and be vulnerable with them. I’m not offering solutions, just letting you know you’re not alone. I’m writing this in case someone else feels like this sometimes and doesn’t know what to do with how they feel. But this level of pain I see in the world is just way above my threshold. I want a perfect love, Utopian love but I want a degree of pain too in order to intensify that love, hence Utopian rebel. It feels like self inflicted pain really because it is essentially not my business and I shouldn’t be bothered. Yes, it is the way the world works, but I just want to point out that I feel this way and it bothers me and I turn a blind eye but it still affects me. Gender-based violence, recurring slave trade, child abuse and neglect, depression and how normal it has become, suicide, heartbreak. I feel so hopeless when I watch the news, tolerate and listen to all these atrocities experienced by humans in the hands of other humans.
Or better yet, can create a paradise on Earth as a drive by on our way to the actual fixed paradise.
Because I believe strongly that relationships and interdependence when authentic, can be the closest thing to the Utopian fantasy.
#Homesick for places that are no longer home free
But then again was democracy realistic when *insert a politician who fought for democracy in a time when it felt impossible* was committing their entire life towards achieving it? I want humanity to be free to express love without fear of being seen as weak, without being labelled naive or stupid, without being thought of as people-pleasers or people who aren’t in love with themselves, without being perceived as insecure and therefore desperate to be wanted. I believe so much in the power of love that I sometimes feel extremely immature. And I want to see it with admiring eyes completely exempt from any form of envy. I think I’m a misplaced descendant of Utopian rebels. All I know is that it is in correlation with the tiny pang in my heart that I feel at random moments when I think of something good or cheesy and I realize that it’s too precious, too magical, too perfect to actually be realistic. The other is on the inner part of my forearm and it reads “Appreciate myself as a whole” with a little heart next to it.
#Homesick for places that are no longer home skin
One is a sunflower just below my cleavage, on the skin covering my xiphoid process and it is arranged in such a way that when I wear a top that exposes my midriff, a tiny part of the stem and leaf is visible. I’m eating Cheerios in milk in a wine glass with a white plastic fork. It’s 00:31 am on a Wednesday morning and I just realized that bookmarking a page on the internet is in fact in reference to bookmarking a page in an actual book.
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