It must be love! She moves in with him and he lets it happen. She happens to talk a bit much, but then he just leaves the house to go swimming. She happens to have a father complex, but then he could solve that for her? He happens to lose his job, but then they can go travelling together. She happens to get herself transferred to a small island, but then he will just have to love her from a distance … She is called Marianne, he remains nameless and faithful to and captivated by Marianne throughout all troubles. Director Petter Næss has staged their life together and their love life as a high-power exchange of blows. Although this relationship features a much more rapid sequence of rows, compromises and reconciliation than would be realistic in real life, this in no way narrows the value of recognizability of “Gone With the Woman”. The director of “Elling” has once again scored a highly amusing coup with his adaptation of the novel by bestselling author Erlend Noe (which Næss already put on stage): “Gone With the Woman” demonstrates in the most entertaining manner that men and women cannot live separated from each other. And can certainly not live together either.