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ANGELS ON THE ROOF: Elly (Camilla San Miguel Bjørneng) and Jo (Edvard Ross) in a most magical moment. Photo: NRK
More social realism and less magic in NRK’s new Christmas calendar.
“Stardust”
24-part Christmas calendar
NRK1 and NRK TV as of December 1.
With: Edvard Ross, Camilla San Miguel Bjørneng, Ester Marie Grenersen, India Dee Kvangarsnes, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Morten Svartveit, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Caleb Kebreab, Jakob Larsen m.fl.
Series Creators: Karianne Lund and Ida Sagmo Tvedte
In some episodes of this year’s NRK Christmas calendar, a character will sell their story as this year’s Christmas story to the class. “It is very similar to Little Red Riding Hood,” some point out. “No, he is not, he is a reindeer with him” is the answer.
In this way, it can also be said that “Star Dust” remembers the previous hits of the NRK Christmas calendar, but those elements have been replaced. Here is once again a magical universe that comes into contact with ours.
But also a divorce.
ANGEL IN THE SNOW: Wolf (Trond Fausa Aurvåg) is scary and unintentionally funny. Photo: NRK
Jo (Edvard Ross) has just moved in with her mother and two younger brothers to a new apartment. The parents have decided to separate on December 1. A hockey boy who is more interested than usual in the universe and space. Especially the North Star, Stella Polaris, about whom she enthusiastically retells the story to all who will listen.
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What Jo doesn’t know is that the North Star is controlled by a town, far to the north. They operate as guide stars, a sort of combination of angels and galactic GPS, and help people who have gone astray. Here we find Elly (Camilla San Miguel Bjørneng).
This is how “Star Dust” combines “Christmas King”, “Christmas on Blåfjell”, “Christmas in the Swing” and “Snowfall”. The difference is that magic eventually takes place on “our” side. And that Elly is a defiant and irresponsible crying girl who doesn’t fully understand the dimension of her own universal design. At least in the six episodes that VG has seen.
ANGEL AT HOME: Anne Marit Jacobsen plays a self-absorbed nursing patient who possibly has a closer connection to history. Photo: NRK
A story of divorce in the woods on family vacations is challenging. “Star dust” seeks to move towards a universe as socially realistic as possible. In contrast to the clearly caricatured worlds that most of the earlier series are set in.
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What is missing is a form of warmth and humor. Here the latter is almost exclusively left to Trond Fausa Aurvåg in a good, but somewhat unsolved, kind / mischievous role. Warmth is pursued by mother Kjersti (Ester Grenersen) who is looking for a pre-Christmas atmosphere in a new everyday life. Father Steinar (Morten Svartveit) has no other good answers as to why he has accepted the skewed visitation arrangements of the “working so hard” time.
Photographed fine and with film texture, a little cut off without motivation, but full of actor gold: both the young lead characters, Anne Marit Jacobsen as a preoccupied nursing home patient, and Henriette Steenstrup in a new role as director.
“Star Dust” should be honored for trying to tell a slightly more “difficult” story about Christmas. And don’t just focus on supernatural excitement and good humor.
So it must be that the real magic after six episodes is that two brothers have completely different dialects.
The reviewer has seen six episodes.
