| [filmlover-l] Movie this week: Den Brysomme
Mannen (The Bothersome Man) |
Monday, June 06, 2011
10:17:36 AM |
| From: |
tbco@mtu.edu |
| To: |
filmlover-l@mtu.edu |
Hello everyone,
We are back for this week and we are showing a movie for this week.
For this wednesday,
we are showing a Norwegian movie, "Den Brysomme Mannen (The Bothersome
Man)", directed by Jens Lien (more details below).
Hope you can join us. As usual, please distribute
the announcement to anyone who might be
interested.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Den Brysomme Mannen (The Bothersome Man)
Date and Time: June 8, Wednesday, 6:30-9:00pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Jens Lien
Partial List of Actors:
Trond Fausa Aurvaag
Petronella Barker
Per Schaaning
Birgitte Larsen
Johannes Joner
Ellen Horn
US Rating: Not rated ( I think it is R)
Language: Norwegian (with English subtitles)
Length: 95 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: (by Tordenfilm AS via www.imdbd.com)
"Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange
city with no memory of how he got there.
He is presented with a job, an apartment...But
before long, Andreas notices that something is
wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city,
but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets
Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar.
Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe
it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is
hatched."
My Comments:
A surreal film with some occasional (perhaps two?)
gruesome events. Apparently based on a radio
show...(I wonder how what a surreal radio
show will be like). Some reviewers appropriately
called it "dystopian". A mix of Gilliam's "Brazil",
David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" and Vonnegut's
"Harrison Bergeron" in a Kafkaesque world.
Direction, cinematography and acting are very good.
...just be ready for a strange movie. Good use of
Edvard Grieg music.
