The Sunlit Night (2019)

Fridtjov Såheim: Nils

Quotes 

• Nils : Your official title will be apprentice.

  Frances : [restrained enthusiasm]  It's amazing to be your apprentice.

  Nils : Do not use... do not.. Do not use the word "amazing," okay?

• Nils : Tonight, I'm cooking the secret recipe of my mother.

  Frances : Good for you.

  Nils : You may join me in the upstairs kitchen.

  Frances : [feigning]  Oh, wow!

  Nils : [chuckles]  Sarcasm doesn't suit you.

• [Nils and Frances share a bottle of wine as they sit on the dunes above the fjord] 

  Nils : You know, you and I are opposites, Frances. I'm not used to people. Especially not teaching, but you know, we complement one another. My orange to your blue.

  Nils : [takes a drink and continues]  Blue and orange are complementary colors. If you look at something orange, a piece of paper for like 15 seconds and then look at a white paper, your eye makes blue. It's the same with yellow and violet. I use yellow and red when I want violet, you know? So it is living.

  [waves crashing] 

  Frances : It is living.

  [both lightly chuckle] 

• Frances : [enters Nils' residence]  What's with all the trash?

  Nils : It's not trash, I recycle.

• [Nils observes Frances meticulously marking using a framing square] 

  Nils : Your eye is sharpening.

  Frances : [internal monologue]  I started to understand that the barn was not paint by numbers but that it was a whole geometry. We were using the minor angles of sundials and the unit grids of graphing to build a kind of monochrome mosaic. And it was also my monument to my detention to this place that made work feel worth doing.

  Nils : Have you been able to do your own work?

  Frances : Uh... trying to, a little bit.

  Nils : I'd like to see some of your pieces. After the inspection tomorrow. Tonight, I have to complete the paperwork. You finish up for the inspection.

  Frances : [incredulously]  Are you kidding?

  Nils : Like my mother, I'm never kidding.