Kathrine Thorborg Johansen and Anders Danielsen Lie gives fine performances in the second fiction feature from Swedish-Danish director Maria Bäck, in which a woman's long-term extramarital affair puts her life in perspective.
By Guy Lodge
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Courtesy of Snowglobe “I would never fall in love if I was in a good relationship.” So says one participant in the women’s church group where Copenhagen-based wife and mother Kate (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen) confesses that she’s been having a three-year affair with another man, and doesn’t much regret it. It’s a line that sounds like sturdy, suitably Christian advice, but is it true? Kate’s husband Orla (Simon Sears) is attentive, attractive and empathetic; so is Andreas (Anders Danielsen Lie), the smart, offbeat archaeologist she’s smitten with at first sight. Alternately droll and emotionally acute, Maria Bäck’s “Brave New Love” never presents this romantic triangle as a problem with one solution; it’s considerably less judgmental than the church ladies as it gives its protagonist space to figure out if she really loves two people at once, or just loves nobody — herself included — quite enough.
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