"The Hypnosis is acidly clever as it zeroes in on a key relationship quandary in our age of mandatory therapeutic self-revelation: To love someone is surely to want to help them become the truest version of themselves." - Jessica Kiang, Variety
"Executing some toe-curling displays of social faux pas played straight that would make Michael Haneke blush, August and Nordrum are a winning pair of leads, who gamely lean into the absurdity that Ernst De Geer and Mads Steggen’s script asks of them." - Hannah Strong, Little White Lies
André and Vera are a young Swedish entrepreneurial couple who get the chance to pitch their women’s health app at a prestigious weekend gathering for start-ups and potential investors. Before going, Vera tries hypnotherapy to help her quit smoking, but it has an unexpected side effect: she loses all her social inhibitions, and the weekend doesn’t go to plan for her, André and the entire gathering. Ernst De Geer’s first feature film is a thought-provoking modern satire about trying to be ourselves amid society’s expectations and observations of our behaviour.
