An Affair (2018)

AN AFFAIR  (2018)  ¢ ¢
    D: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
    Andrea Braein Hovig, Tarjei Sandvik Moe, 
    Anneke von der Lippe, Carsten Bjornlund,
    Agnes Kittelson, Ingjerd Egeberg
Unsettling melodrama from Norway about a high-school gym teacher who gets involved with one of her male students. Every move this woman makes, you want to scream at her, don't do this, it's a real bad idea. So, of course, she does. And it is. I know stuff like this happens, but watching it happen, even in a movie, can make you cringe, especially when the behavior involved is as wrong as it is irrational. Tarjei Sandvik Moe, who plays the student, seems way more mature, self-confident and sexually sophisticated than any high-school freshman the real world has ever known, but, who knows, maybe things are different in Norway.