Every Other Week is a film that is essentially a celebration of the complicated nature of relationships. The film opens with a Chicken Tonight-esque advertisement that turns out to be a pitch by director Pontus to the advertising agency he works for, as the perfect commercial for a product with a focus on the divorce market. Divorced himself, Pontus and his ex-wife Maria raise their daughter together and even plan to have a baby.

Pontus’s brother Jens, a doctor who is married with three children, is kicked out of the house by his wife who suspects him of having an affair with Johanna. Jens insists they are only friends. To add fuel to the fire Jens and Johanna’s friendship began after they were both abandoned by Pontus.

One of the funniest scenes in the film belongs to Jens, who during a counselling session with his wife, Tessan, day dreams a Matrix like hallucination, where he must decide whether to take the blue pill and return to his marriage or the red and fall into the great unknown. The film is footnoted by several of Pontus’s divorce market focused ads all are highly satirical and incredibly funny.

Every Other Week is a humorous and entertaining look at relationships and the irrational and complex emotions that go along with them. It is an excellent film with an appeal to a universal audience with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, it’s definitely a Festival highlight.

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