Despite having lived in the city for the majority of his life, Anders Danielsen Lie can’t wrap his head around why anyone would come to Oslo. “I’ve sometimes wondered what it must feel like to come here as a student or tourist,” the actor and doctor tells me over a coffee on a recent, sunny Sunday morning in Damplassen, an affluent residential district. “What do people do when they are in Norway? In Oslo?” He pauses, trying to answer the question himself, before giving up and shielding his eyes from the sun, looking back at me. “What did you do?”
Vagabon, AKA musician and Letterboxd member Laetitia Tamko, joins hosts Gemma and Slim for a tour of her four favorite films: Pretty Woman; The Piano Teacher; The Worst Person in the World and Seven. Plus: Elden Ring, discovering Prince via Pretty Woman, covering Gen-X hits with Liz Phair, covering Karen Dalton with Courtney Barnett, loving Nancy Meyers, being f—ed up by Michael Haneke, wanting stability and chaos, and the hypothetical psychological rom-com starring Patti Harrison and Vagabon that we deserve. Vagabon plays at Storm King in New Windsor, NY, on June 25, 2022.
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