Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.
With Every Heartbeat is a competent Swedish romantic drama exploring a familiar forbidden-love triangle with a same-sex dimension. The plot follows well-trodden territory of a woman torn between social expectation and personal desire, offering little structural surprise. The acting is earnest and emotionally credible, particularly in the leads' chemistry, though it rarely transcends the genre's conventions. Cinematography is clean and Scandinavian in aesthetic — functional and pleasant but not visually distinctive. Novelty is limited; the lesbian romance amid family entanglement has been explored in numerous films, and this entry doesn't reframe the material in a singular way. The ending resolves with reasonable emotional honesty without being particularly memorable or daring.