- Is it OK to throw away the old wedding dress? What do you do with the crystal glasses that nobody wants? A Separation by Karin Ekberg is a tragicomic documentary that portrays the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about the tentative search for a beginning of what - finally, and unfortunately - is over.—Momento Film
- Karin's Mom and Dad had been married for 38 years but slept in separate bedrooms the last 15 years. Suddenly the mother wants to divorce. The house is put out for sale. They meet on the weekends to pack things up. Karin follows with the camera. Her Mom dances as the boxes are filled, waltzing through the living room with an invisible partner. What is waiting for her in her new life? Alone in the large house, her Dad can no longer control his memories and starts to speak.
- They have been married for 38 years. Over the past 15 years they have been sleeping in separate bedrooms. Now, one of them wants to divorce. The villa is already on sale. Is it ok to throw away the old wedding dress? What do you do with the crystal glasses that nobody wants?
In her debut documentary, Karin Ekberg follows her parents with the camera during a year of their lives. A year where nothing is the same. We meet them for the first time in what was once their shared home. Things needs to be divided. The rooms are desolate, occasional furniture here and there. The mother has already moved and now it's just the last things to sort out. "Do you want this or? You've never liked it!" It's nervy. Loaded. The father carries out stuff to the car, he stops for a bit and wants to remember, in search for feelings that once existed. The mother is impatient to get going. She doesn't want to remember.
What happens between two people who gets divorced? Who perhaps should have divorced a long time ago. A separation is a tragicomedy that portrays the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about the tentative search for a beginning in what at last - and unfortunately - is over.
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