Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen)

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Gone with the Woman
Original title	Tatt av kvinnen
Type	Features
Genre	Drama, Comedy
Director	Petter Næss
Short summary	Gone with the Woman is the story of He, a male who hasn't even got a name. And, without him fully grasping how it comes about, his life is invaded by a woman. From this point on, he struggles to tackle the situation; He could try to throw out the invader, or try to adjust to the circumstances. He opts for the second alternative, and decides to fall deeply in love. As He himself puts it: "I will start already by tomorrow." A sincere, althhough somewhat naïve project. But she already has this little grip on him, she is a small step ahead. And He is behind her. Only a few seconds, a few lines, but still behind - in his own life. He passes from being invaded to being in love to being left behind. And exactly when He is about to forget her - she returns. The film tells the story of a man who is finally forced to decide how he is going to live his own life - and this is the woman's merit.
Summary	"That was when she started coming around more often. In the evenings, right before I turned in for the night. She would sit down and talk. Talk about how much she loved silence, and how great it was to spend time alone. Talk and talk and never stop." (Erlend Loe) Gone with the Woman is a film about a young man’s encounter with the enigma that is love and the even greater enigma that is woman. After being invaded, seduced and conquered, our unnamed main character realizes that he has a girlfriend. How else could you explain the sudden presence of a talkative young lady in his apartment? Before long, she’s turning his life upside-down; enthusiastically rearranging the furniture while he trails after her trying to have a say in the matter. Still uncertain whether he’s particularly confident in matters concerning love or women, he decides to make an attempt to understand both of these forces. He realizes that if all parties are to have space in this relationship, he’ll have to fight for every inch of territory. But it isn’t easy to stake a claim when you can never get a word in edgewise. Gone with the Woman is a film version of Erlend Loe’s debut novel about a young man’s first tentative steps into the potential disaster area of love, about the female monologues that pass for dialogues, and the right of modern man to decide who wears the pants in the family. Director Petter Næss employs bold visuals to paint this story, and this, along with the excellent casting of Trond Fausa Aurvåg and Marian Saastad Ottesen, brings Loe’s tale to life on the big screen, and does justice to the author’s ironic take on modern love.
Cast	Trond Fausa Aurvåg (He) \| Marian Saastad Ottesen (Marianne) \| Peter Stormare (Glenn) \| Henrik Mestad (Tor) \| Louise Monot (Mirlinda) \| Ingar Helge Gimle (Halfred) \| Trude Bjercke Strøm (Lollik) \|
Screenplay	Johan Bogaeus and Petter Næss
Based on	Erlend Loe's Tatt av kvinnen
D.O.P	Marius Johansen-Hansen fnf
Editor	Inge-Lise Langfeldt
Composer	Aslak Hartberg
Sound	Hugo Ekornes
Costume designer	Karen Fabritius Gram
Scenography	Bettina Schroeteler
Producer	Olav Øen for Monster Film AS
Line producer	Jan-Erik Gammleng
Production company	Monster Film AS \| P.O.Box 7143 St. Olavs plass, N-0130 Oslo \| Tel: +4721063000 \| Fax: +4721063001 \| e-mail: olav@monstermail.no
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2007-09
Release date (international)	2007-08-18
Technical information
Format	35mm
Screen ratio	1:2,35
Colour	Colour
Sound System	Dolby SRD
Length in min's	92
Length in meters	2487
International sales	AB Svensk Filmindustri \| SE – 169 86 Stockholm \| Tel: +4686803500 \| Fax: +4686803783 \| E-mail: international@sf.se \| www.sfinternational.se
Distributor (Norway only)	SF Norge AS
Festival participation	2007 The Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund Opening Film 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada 2007 Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland Warsaw Competition 2007 Hollywood Film Festival, USA Opening Film - Competition 2007 Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany Opening Film, Competition 2007 Scanorama Vilnius, Lithuania Opening Film
Prizes received	2007 Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund: Gledessprederen 2007 Hollywood Film Festival: Discovery Award for Best Film
URL	http://www.nfi.no/film/gonewiththewoman

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Director biography:
Petter Næss, director Petter Næss first film was the comedy Absolutt blåmandag(Absolute Hangover) in 1999. Petter Næss is also the director behind two of the three films about Ingvar Ambjørnsen's Elling character, Elling (Elling/2000), which was Oscar nominated and Elsk meg i morgen (Love Me Tomorrow/2005), in addition to Bare Bea (Just Bea/2003), Mozart and the Whale (i2005) and Hoppet (The Jump/2007) in Sweden.

Otherwise he has primarily busied himself in the world of plays and revues, both as scriptwriter, director and actor. Since 1997 he has been employed as a director at Oslo New Theatre, and was, among other plays, responsible for the critically-acclaimed stage version of "Elling and Kjell Bjarne".