Film Reading Club: 'Nøjsomheden' by Stine Askov (Vamdrup)

Vamdrup Library organizes a film reading club in collaboration with Vamdrup Kino. The concept is straightforward: participants read a novelized book and meet to discuss it before watching the film together at Vamdrup Kino.

This time the book is the novel 'Nøjsomheden' by Stine Askov - a love story about two young people from very different backgrounds, combining humor with themes of social conditions, inequality, mental illness, and grief. A recurring question in the novel is how children are shaped by their upbringing and family.

The film follows Mona, a young woman without formal education from the housing estate Nøjsomheden in Helsingør, who falls in love with Nikolaj from an affluent neighborhood on the other side of town. Meanwhile, she tries to get her drug-dealing uncle Frederik to visit his mother - Mona's beloved Aunt Tut - who is dying. The film is directed by Hella Joof from a screenplay by Bo hr. Hansen, starring Iben Hjejle, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Clint Ruben, and Maria Rossing. Runtime is approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.