Intimate Moments: Dispelling the Cancer Myth with Real Life - Summer Rain by Nanna Hauge Kristensen.

Authors

Sophie Townsend, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Abstract

Nanna Hauge Kristensen’s Summer Rain is a small piece in length and in scope. It is intimate, almost fragmentary. It is simply a story of a woman, who is a mother, and a daughter, and who has cancer; a woman undergoing treatment, and raising her child, and dealing with the ramifications of what cancer treatment means. An anthropologist by training, Kristensen’s observational, almost distanced approach style, allows us to glimpse her life, but also to feel it. There is something very empirical about what she’s doing in this piece, and she allows us no room to pretend that her cancer is anything more than an illness with its repercussions, its difficulties and its pain. Its power lies in the size of its canvas, its observational mood, and its rawness.

Recommended Citation

Townsend, Sophie, Intimate Moments: Dispelling the Cancer Myth with Real Life - Summer Rain by Nanna Hauge Kristensen., RadioDoc Review, 4(1), 2018.