Forglemmegei (Forget-me-not)
2019 · 7m · Denmark
Directed by Katarina Lundquist
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Deep in the Norwegian forest, an old man lives an orderly, quiet life with his lifelong friend, a troll. When the troll hints it is time to leave and then disappears one morning, the man leaves home to search for him and gets lost in his own mind, entangled in his fears.
Picked by Margot
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A Norwegian folktale wrapped in art-film drag—competent but playing it safer than the premise deserves, leaning on melancholy and surrealism as shorthand rather than pushing into the genuinely weird space where a man and troll relationship could actually detonate.
Lundquist situates this squarely in the Nordic pastoral-to-psychological tradition, with precise control over pacing and image that recalls a lineage from Dreyer through contemporary Scandinavian cinema; the troll functions as both mythic anchor and metaphor, held in formal balance throughout.
The decision to keep the troll mostly unseen until it vanishes—letting absence become the visual grammar—transforms what could've been whimsy into genuine dread, and that restraint is what makes the man's subsequent disorientation feel earned rather than imposed.