​​Being Ola review – a sweet and gentle film about disability, friendship and abandonment

Documentary follows a resident of a Norwegian village for people with learning disabilities, spotlighting his connection with a Danish care worker This is a sweet, slight, gentle film about Ola Henningsen, a man in early middle age with a round, placid face who lives in a village community in eastern Norway for people with learning and developmental disabilities. (The original title in Norwegian translates as Ola: A Completely Ordinary Unusual Guy.) Director Ragnhild Nøst Bergem interviews Ol...

By Peter Bradshaw