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Remarkable! Compelling! Gripping! --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Amazing! --Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Outstanding! --Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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Outstanding! --Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn t seen in a long while. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning.
In Norwegian with English Subtitles
In Norwegian with English Subtitles
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
As the late Amy Winehouse discovered, offers of a visit to rehab often get received with a `no, no, no'. Well in this case Anders played by Anders Danielson-Lie, is in rehab, whilst he is successfully completing the course it is obvious that he is just going through the motions and sobriety, which can be depressing at the best of times, has left him feeling worthless. So he fills his pocket with stones and jumps in a lake - which sort of fails miserably.
After drying off he is given a pass to go to Oslo for a job interview and a day out, so off he goes. The problem is that he comes from Oslo and all his old `friends' are still there. They have moved on with their lives whereas he has been in a downward spiral of drug abuse for years. He doesn't even have good times to show as most of it was an intoxicated blur. The interview goes badly and Anders slowly goes back to what he knows will give him solace.
This is not the first film to say drugs are bad, it is not the first to deal with suicidal tendencies or a mid life crisis, but it is different all the same. Anders has a series of conversations with the old friends he meets and what at first seems to be the perfect marriage is soon revealed to be a marriage of endured compromise. Jobs that could appear glamorous are merely a means to an end. The revelation that the whole world is rubbish is probably not what Anders wants. But it is what he deserves, because this is all about life choices. He admits to being a spoilt brat and there are references to his caring parents throughout, especially as to how much he has cost them.
He is very hard to like as a person, but it is a credit to director Joachim Trier that he still manages to engage us with someone who is a selfish drug user and dealer. It is from the book by the late Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and so this must be a real labour of love to have taken such an old story and set it in a modern context
This is in Norwegian and runs for just over an hour and a half; it will not be to everybody's taste as some would call it a slow burner or `lyrically paced'. This is not an action film it is a study of self awareness, delusion and a wasted life. The rare glimmers of hope and even redemption have to be relished when they come as they are few and far between, that aside this is still a very original piece of cinema that will probably not get the real attention it deserves.
After drying off he is given a pass to go to Oslo for a job interview and a day out, so off he goes. The problem is that he comes from Oslo and all his old `friends' are still there. They have moved on with their lives whereas he has been in a downward spiral of drug abuse for years. He doesn't even have good times to show as most of it was an intoxicated blur. The interview goes badly and Anders slowly goes back to what he knows will give him solace.
This is not the first film to say drugs are bad, it is not the first to deal with suicidal tendencies or a mid life crisis, but it is different all the same. Anders has a series of conversations with the old friends he meets and what at first seems to be the perfect marriage is soon revealed to be a marriage of endured compromise. Jobs that could appear glamorous are merely a means to an end. The revelation that the whole world is rubbish is probably not what Anders wants. But it is what he deserves, because this is all about life choices. He admits to being a spoilt brat and there are references to his caring parents throughout, especially as to how much he has cost them.
He is very hard to like as a person, but it is a credit to director Joachim Trier that he still manages to engage us with someone who is a selfish drug user and dealer. It is from the book by the late Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and so this must be a real labour of love to have taken such an old story and set it in a modern context
This is in Norwegian and runs for just over an hour and a half; it will not be to everybody's taste as some would call it a slow burner or `lyrically paced'. This is not an action film it is a study of self awareness, delusion and a wasted life. The rare glimmers of hope and even redemption have to be relished when they come as they are few and far between, that aside this is still a very original piece of cinema that will probably not get the real attention it deserves.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This movie captures the feeling of being trapped and destroyed by life better than any other film I've viewed. Watch this.
By S. Spilka
First, a technical deficiency: the English subtitles are so small and blurry that at times I had to sit two inches away from the screen to understand what was going on.
Second, a moral deficiency: I don't understand why I should watch this loser for more than an hour as he wanders through Oslo streets, contemptuous of everything and everybody and unable to pull himself up. Instead of demanding of life to save him (if it could), he should probably have asked what life expects of him. But he is too bored and addicted to do that.
Third, a dramatic deficiency. Ever since Aristotle, we know that events in drama should follow each other by cause and effect. In this movie, there is no motivation, no explanation. Why is this guy hooked on drugs? After all, this is not a given. Not everybody is addicted to drugs. What damaged him in the past? What caused him to despise life? This man has a past, but this past is never shown or explained. As he wanders from party to party, we are not given an entry to his inner life and to his conflicts, if he has any, regarding alcohol and drugs. The actor has an emotional range from A to B, just barely, and although he is handsome, you get tired of him rather quickly.
Second, a moral deficiency: I don't understand why I should watch this loser for more than an hour as he wanders through Oslo streets, contemptuous of everything and everybody and unable to pull himself up. Instead of demanding of life to save him (if it could), he should probably have asked what life expects of him. But he is too bored and addicted to do that.
Third, a dramatic deficiency. Ever since Aristotle, we know that events in drama should follow each other by cause and effect. In this movie, there is no motivation, no explanation. Why is this guy hooked on drugs? After all, this is not a given. Not everybody is addicted to drugs. What damaged him in the past? What caused him to despise life? This man has a past, but this past is never shown or explained. As he wanders from party to party, we are not given an entry to his inner life and to his conflicts, if he has any, regarding alcohol and drugs. The actor has an emotional range from A to B, just barely, and although he is handsome, you get tired of him rather quickly.
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memo to sandiegojesse:
he lost the jacket in the lake when he changed his mind abt suicide, because *it was full of stones weighing him down*. not a continuity problem.
Published 7 months ago by Richard W. Martin
