Me and My Moulton

Writer-director Torill Kove's Oscar-nominated short film takes a cheeky look at the life of a little girl living in small-town Norway, circa 1965. The 7-year-old middle sister protagonist of Me and My Moulton is not altogether happy with the current state of affairs: she and her siblings absolutely need a bike to be like their peers and even offer to “share one.” Her bespectacled modernist architect parents pay no mind to following along with the crowd, but friends raise their eyebrows at the family's 2nd-floor duplex (where the girls often fall out of the avant-garde three-legged furniture), and the little girl herself has qualms about her father's prominent moustache in a town of bare faces (“It makes my stomach hurt”). Nevertheless, this unorthodox family enjoys a strange warmth, especially when compared to some others. Featuring imaginative vignettes, brightly-colored art, narration by Andrea Bræin Hovig, and jazzy music by Kevin Dean, this cute slice-of-life tale—an ALSC Notable Video selection—is highly recommended. Aud: E, P. (J. Williams-Wood)