I Am Yours (2013)

Mina is a young single mother living in Oslo with her 6 year old son Felix. She is of Norwegian Pakistani descent with a troubled family relationship. Constantly looking for love, Mina ... See full summary »

Director:

Iram Haq

Writer:

Iram Haq

Stars:

Amrita Acharia, Ola Rapace, Prince Singh

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Amrita Acharia	...	Mina
Ola Rapace	...	Jesper
Prince Singh	...	Felix
Rabia Noreen	...	Samina
Trond Fausa	...	Martin
Jesper Malm	...	Simon
Sudhir Kumar Kohli	...	Minas dad
Assad Siddique	...	Felix Dad
Sara Khorami	...	Felix Stepmom
Usha Patel	...	Grandmother
Musse Hasselvall	...	Boxer
Vatch Wartanian	...	Boxer II
Jon Sigurd Kristensen	...	Man at parking lot
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tobias Santelmann	...	Dirk

Storyline

Mina is a young single mother living in Oslo with her 6 year old son Felix. She is of Norwegian Pakistani descent with a troubled family relationship. Constantly looking for love, Mina seeks affections from the men she hooks up with. However, none of the relationships bear any hope of lasting very long. So when Mina meets Jesper, a Swedish film director, she falls head over heels in love.

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Plot Keywords:

single mother | masturbation | male rear nudity | aspiring actress | culture clash | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

Norway

Language:

Norwegian Urdu Swedish

Release Date:

16 August 2013 (Norway)

Also Known As:

I Am Yours

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mer Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Official submission of Norway to the Oscars 2014 best foreign language film category.

User Reviews

A main character who, when it comes to the opposite sex, really needs to exercise some quality control...

'I am Yours' is about a young Pakistani woman living in Oslo. Whereas her conservative family have barely made an effort to integrate into Norwegian society, struggling actress and single mother Mina has gone to the opposite extreme, living a hedonistic lifestyle of dancing, drinking - and flirting with a succession of unsuitable men like a moth repeatedly bashing itself against a lightbulb. When she meets self-centred Swedish filmmaker Jesper she thinks her prince may have come - while the audience are thinking instead "No dear, you've already got one unpleasantly needy young child, you don't need another..."

And that's the problem with the film: Mina is a charming young woman, sweet-natured despite being starved of parental affection, but it's hard to feel sympathy for a main character who consistently takes such obviously bad decisions. I don't mind so much that the film doesn't have much structure - it merely plops the viewer down in the middle of Mina's life and 96 minutes later plucks him out again - but when initial sympathy for the main character turns to resignation ("Oh blimey, she's flinging herself at yet another man she knows nothing about"), it's in danger of losing the viewer's attention. But on the other hand, lead actress Amrita Acharia does a nice job of creating a vulnerable character, and, having lived in Oslo for three years, I had fun spotting places in the city that I know.