![]() ![]() ![]() And Estelle, an eighty year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by some bank robber waving a gun in her face. Their opposite and idiosyncratic home preferences are making them increasingly anxious about their chances of spending a lifetime together. Julia and Danijela are a young lesbian couple with a newborn baby who can’t agree on anything. ![]() But when tragedy strikes in her life, she becomes addicted to visiting real-estate open houses to see how the middle-classes live – and possibly to find a suitable place to commit suicide. Then there is Zara, a wealthy director of a bank who has never cared for poor people or their problems (and isn’t shy about saying so). They have the distinction of shopping at every Ikea in Sweden-and those are some of the most romantic moments they ever shared. In captivity we meet Roger and Anna-Lena, a recently retired couple who are on a manic hunt for fixer-uppers because they don’t know how to fix their own marriage. Anxious People is an unreasonably riotous comedy about a hostage drama during an open house that all begins when a failed bank robber locks himself in with six strangers who have come to view the apartment. That’s why, from the very outset, I need to say that it is always very easy to declare people idiots, but only if you forget that it is also almost always idiotically difficult to be human. But more than that, it’s a story about idiots. ![]()
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