52 Films by Women Vol 6. 13. NINJABABY (Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke)
Contains spoilers (sorry) How many women are surprised by a stealth pregnancy where they think they are less than eight weeks pregnant, but the baby is actually due in two and a half months? I ask because the plot of Norwegian co-writer-director Yngvild Sve Flikke’s comedy, Ninjababy , hinges on this point. Encouraged by her flatmate to take a pregnancy test, unemployed party girl and occasional cartoonist Rakel (Kristine Kujath Thorp) discovers that she is with child. She assumes the father is martial arts instructor, Mos (Nader Khademi) with whom she had a one-night stand – sex doesn’t register as something especially memorable to her. When he asks her to have coffee with him, she reveals that she is expecting his offspring. Only, don’t worry, she has arranged an abortion. The next day, she misses her bus, so she calls Mos to drive her. At the clinic, she prepares for a termination only to be told that it isn’t legally possible – she is six and a half months pregnant. Reali...