Our Own Oslo


Our Own Oslo Icelandic Okkar eigin Osl is a 2011 Icelandic comedy film directed by Reynir Lyngdal.

Back at home in Reykjavik and wanting to build on their first night, Harald invites Vilborg out to breakfast. In the course of their early morning date, she is accused of embezzling bank funds by her now sober boss, has her car repossessed off the street in front of her, reveals to Harald she has a gambling addiction, and has an emotional breakdown during which she proposes to drown herself. Enter Harald to the rescue after he has her over to his apartment to calm her down with hot chocolate, Harald invites Vilborg out to his summer cabin, after which the personal baggage of each grows. Harald has a needy developmentally disabled adult sister, Vilborg has an adolescent son whom she initially forgets to collect, and Harald is busy as the summer cabin association chair and sewerline maintenance man. To further frustrate the opportunity for romance between the new couple, Vilborgs exhusband Palmi appears at the summer cabin, and Haralds mom is being pursued by her longtime boyfriend. Following heavy drinking of Haralds liquor by Vilborg and her ex that leads to Vilborgs and Palmis private reunion in a tent, the exact nature of which is unclear, the VilborgHarald romance appears dead.After Vilborg takes her son, who has finally started to like Harald, and departs in a taxi, Vilborg and Harald each have flashbacks to their carefree special night in the Norwegian capital. Frustrated by the failure of the romance and by pentup anger toward his deceased alcoholic father, Harald lights the summer cabin on fire to the neighbours shock and amusement. As the cabin blazes, Vilborg arrives back at the scene desperate to find Harald whom she now realizes she loves and wants to pursue a relationship with. ........

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