Fridayfilm // week 40

The unlikely couple.

In this week's Friday film we encounter two persons who stand out in their respective fields. She as a skilled painter, and he as a notorious criminal. What happens when their worlds collide? Award-winning director Benjamin Ree (Ibelin) documented their meeting over the course of three years. 

Friday film: The Painter and the Thief

Barbora is a Chech painter. One day two of her largest and most costly paintings go missing from Galleri Nobel in Oslo, in broad daylight. Barbora contacts one of the thieves, Karl "Bertil" Nordland, and invites him to sit for a portrait. The unlikely pair become better acquainted in the process, and suprising things happen when Barbora decides to look for the paintings. 

The film is a close portrait of two people who struggle. But by challenging their own prejudice and not give each other up, they show us what treating people humanely and with forgiveness can lead to.

 Watch it here.

Published: 01/10/2024   Last updated: 01/10/2024