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‘Don’t Call Me Mama’ Review: Pia Tjelta Stands Out In A Surprisingly Subversive Norwegian Immigrant Drama – Karlovy Vary Film Festival
‘Don’t Call Me Mama’ review: Pia Tjelta stands out in a surprisingly subversive Norwegian immigrant drama – Karlovy Vary Film Festival
'Don't Call Me Mama'KVIFF Norway famously gave us Liv Ullmann, muse to the Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, but since then, this country of just 5.55 million people continues to punch above its weight, adding a long line of actresses of a similar caliber. To that list — including Ane Dahl Torp, Helga Guren, Renate Reinsve and many more — we must now add Pia Tjelta, whose performance in Nina Knag’s feature-debut — a hard-hitting psychological drama posing as Sirkian love story — is next-level stuff. — this married professional woman whose adult daughter has only recently left home — Knag takes a step back, revealing Eva as a lot more complicated than the community-minded homebody we first mistake her for.
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