Hot Docs 2008

Young love can be wild, tempestuous even. But when filmmaker Michael Noer gave his 20-something neighbours Julie and Martin a video camera to film their daily lives, he had no idea what a roller-coaster it could be. In a west-end Copenhagen flat, the do-nothing pair have a full-time time relationship: partying together, texting each other, making out and having complete emotional breakdowns. As the two lurch from crisis to surprising crisis, Julie takes to her camera as a therapist, confessing her innermost desires and fears over Martin, while he reveals complexities and hidden anxieties of his own. Will they continue to deny impending realities or defy them and hold onto their happiness? The couple's visceral self-filmed footage and Noer's intimate observations form an almost uncomfortably honest, energetic and most modern love story.
-Myrocia Watamaniuk