Fixed Ideas Yousef al-Mohaimeed this is an unflinching look

this is an unflinching look at a gritty sub-genre and its constant clashes with controversy

Jo Mazelis’ singular vision and poetic language creates characters caught up in events and feelings they do not fully understand or control

Matthew Sweeney

Comedies of English manners have rarely been darker

being a woman

Fixed Ideas Yousef al-Mohaimeed this is an unflinching lookFixed Ideas is a restless and effective tale of desire, gender and longing, about fundamental loneliness and the constant, gnawing awareness that threatens our ability to encounter one another as the person we really are. The story of a young woman and a slightly older man, both working at a newspaper in Oslo, who have a one night stand. Fixed Ideas explores how their relationship and perception of each other develops in the aftermath.