Sick of Myself

9/15/2026

**Summary: 8/10: a hilarious, unnervingly well-constructed portrait of a serious disorder, carried by a fearless performance from Kristine Kujath Thorp, that fools its characters and its audience by the same method.** The direction is the film's real feat, considering the material. Kristoffer Borgli's black comedy starts its two leads close to caricature, a narcissist and a bigger narcissist, locked in a competition neither will admit they're having. Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) is losing her boyfriend Thomas (Eirik Sæther) to his sudden fame as a sculptor who builds his pieces from furniture he's stolen. Rather than compete on any axis where she might actually win, she chooses illness, poisoning herself with a black-market drug to trigger a disfiguring skin reaction, then riding