ninjababy

Yngvild Sve Flikke’s sophomore feature, Ninjababy, is not unlike maternity-driven narrative comedies you might’ve seen in your heyday, except you’ve probably never seen one so well decorated with animated interludes and characters in between scenes and segments. This was an interesting story to watch unfold with graphic visual artistry key to the progression of the story with actress Kristine Kujath Thorp leading the cast from a script by Flikke and by Johan Fasting and Inga Sætre. We meet 23-year old Rakel (Thorp), a struggling comic artist with dreams of being more than what and where she is now, whilst spending most of her days either in her cluttered room and mustering what motivation she can to get her concepts off the ground, or getting hella wasted and philandering. She doesn’t sleep around like crazy though, but just enough to possibly recall and recognize from moment to moment who she might […]

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