The central narrative question raised by Swedish-Danish writer-director Maria Bäck in her film Brave New Love is not exactly novel: an accomplished woman is happy in her marriage. She falls in love with another man. What does she do now? Bäck uses this simple setup to question the norms and structures of heterosexual relationships, and she asks whether the concepts of monogamy and infidelity pose unnecessary limits on the expression of love. Subject matter long probed by therapeutic discourse and...
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