Product Details

• Actors: Petronella Barker, Ellen Horn, Johannes Joner, Anders T. Andersen, Trond Fausa Aurvag
• Directors: Jens Lien
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
• Language: English, Norwegian
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Film Movement
• DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000O3C5DS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,292 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Bothersome Man" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Provocative Norwegian film is worth seeing, April 11, 2008

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Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bothersome Man (DVD)

This Norwegian film starts with a man jumping over the subway, apparently commiting suicide. But the next scene shows him arriving in a lonely bus into a desert. There he meets a man, and is shipped off to a mysterious city, where he starts working in an aseptic modern office as an accountant. The coworkers seem nice, if emotionless, and he soon meets a woman who becomes his girlfriend, yet the city seems utterly strange, as the food has no taste, alcohol doesn't make you drunk, and there's nary a children around. Is this a dream, or is he in paradise, or in hell?. While at times, the films looks as extended episode of The Twilight Zone (even at ninety minutes, the movie seems a bit long), it is quite thought provoking. The best scenes are those in which the exaggeration is minimal, as when the people engage in banal conversations about interior decoration, and recoil at discussing deeper issues. I always thought there was something inhuman in advanced capitalist societies, in the way they try to repress the basic urges of human nature. And this movie is best when it devastatingly critiques this life style. Unfortunately, the movie is a bit too long, and the director doesn't seem to know how to end it, but most for of the running time this is very much worth seeing.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stays with you for a while after you stop watching it..., May 19, 2010

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A.Raj Rao "RR" (Somewhere over the rainbow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bothersome Man (DVD)

This was a really interesting and somewhat disturbing movie. How do I put it? Anyone read Albert Camus' The Stranger (L'Étranger)? You have that very impersonal guy, Meursault who is very disconnected with the rest of the world. Meursault navigates himself through a world personned by color, emotion, feeling, spirituality, life and so on, and yet he is totally not connected to any of it.

This movie seems sort of to be giving you a reverse situation. It is as if it asks - what happens to a person when he finds himself in a world populated by Meursaults? And that is just what happens. Andreas apparently winds up at a bus stop in a desert-like place and from there is taken to a very modern spic and span city. Here he is given perhaps everything that anyone could want in life - a job, friends, a girlfriend, nice apartment, etc. - What more could you ask for in life??? - Yet in spite of it all something is missing. The city, which he reached by way of the desert is itself a desert of sorts. The city (and its people) lacks color, emotion, feeling, etc. It is nothing but flesh, bone and nerve amidst concrete, gravel and steel. It is a hollow place. Andreas' sense that there something not right with the place increases as he finds the place to be more and more alienating. Ok - I'll stop here and not say anymore about the story -

The movie seems to be some kind of existential commentary on modern societies, where on the surface, you seem to have everything, but deep within have nothing, and the lives lived are those of Thoreau's quiet desperation.

- Very good and intelligent movie.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars samuel beckett would have adored this movie, October 8, 2011

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kickerz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bothersome Man (Amazon Instant Video)

I won't go on ... I can't go on ... I'll go on.

The main character has incredible fortitude, and in spite of his suicidal tendencies he really does want to live - he just keeps looking for a different world to live in, one that must be greener, happier than the one he has. I myself work in a drab office with fake people, and this depiction had me laughing out loud, everyone in gray, the shabbiness of the coffee break area, it is an absolute hell on earth but this picture has me half brainwashed that I should not try to leave! The message is to just go on living, somehow, with the tasteless food that is presented to you, the meaningless sex, etc., don't complain or you'll be handed something worse! It reminds me so much of Bush and his mysterious WMDs. Hysterical.

Don't take it all too seriously, just enjoy the film, the natural gullibility of the lead actor, and the exquisite cinematography. You could not make a film like this in America. Thanks, Amazon, for bringing it to us.