Vera is a woman without qualities. She has no leisure interests or family, lives in one with her cat and is incredibly poor at her job as a primary school teacher. She dreams of love with a big K and is secretly in love with her colleague Frank, but only gets to a one-off bed with associated STDs.
After her "life coach" told her to stop dreaming and just decide for someone, she starts dating the great doctor Karl-Johan. He may be a little too interested in skiing and his own mother, but Vera decides to forget Frank and give up.
Until Frank separates us is a Swedish romantic comedy with both conscious and unconscious embarrassment. The genre belongs to entangled in absurd lies with painfully embarrassing results, which Liv Mjönes Vera masters in a rather uniquely funny way. Other embarrassments are not as consciously created, as the embarrassing PR campaign for Åre with repeated "Oh, how beautiful it is" to views of the ship and Lake Åres.
There are also pure talents; like Vera should be a cash skier in the style of Stig Helmer, and Liv Mjönes struggles with a really strenuous slapstick, but at other times has a stand in that goes super pro down black slopes. It is difficult to digest and irritating.
Despite the involuntary distortions, Until Frank has separated us from some really funny hardships. Liv Mjönes actually manages to whip up both life and humor in Vera's incredibly strange personality, she is stiff and boundless at the same time. She handles the hopeless situations that she creates in an absurd way, with a generous voice she constructs incredible lies. In addition, screenwriter Peter Magnusson has built in the film's very basic conflict in a surprising way in his character Karl-Johan (although he has watched quite a few times at Sleepless in Seattle when Bill Pullman frees to Meg Ryan and blossoms in torment).
Wonderful Erik Johansson who plays Frank has unfortunately got on tok too little to work with, the chemistry between him and Liv Mjönes does not really want to because Frank is quite blank. Peter Magnusson seems to have almost satisfied himself by picking Erik Johansson's character from the Bonus family. It's a shame.
I probably frown on both one and twenty scenes, but when the humor gold glitters it glitters pretty well. Around Karl-Johan there will be several really fun moments and Emma Molin goes from just filling a function as Vera's dominant best friend to humor gold in connection with a funeral. Experienced music comedy director Leif Lindblom (Molanders, Svensson Svensson, Cleo) does a safe job as long as the script is good.
Above all, it is Liv Mjönes who struggles up this grade to a third. The turkey warning is constantly under threat as a threat, but Mjöne's tricky Vera manages to balance on the edge of catastrophic embarrassment without trembling. Her demeanor is both intrinsic and entertaining.