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- 2001
- TV-MA
- First Run Features
- 1 h 53 m
- 2001
- TV-MA
- First Run Features
- 1 h 53 m
Summary A modern, raw, pitch-black comedy about a young woman who travels from Scotland to Norway to find her estranged, alcoholic father and bring him home. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Hans Petter Moland
Written By: Kristin Amundsen, Lars Bill Lundholm, Hans Petter Moland
- 2001
- TV-MA
- First Run Features
- 1 h 53 m
- 2001
- TV-MA
- First Run Features
- 1 h 53 m
Aberdeen
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6.3
Summary A modern, raw, pitch-black comedy about a young woman who travels from Scotland to Norway to find her estranged, alcoholic father and bring him home. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Hans Petter Moland
Written By: Kristin Amundsen, Lars Bill Lundholm, Hans Petter Moland
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
78
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Norway's hallucinatory, edge-of-the-world beauty imbues the story with a woozy, alcoholic haze and a sense of the marginal spaces into which the messiest aspects of private life are shoved.
It could have done with fewer plot devices, but it is ultimately far more satisfying than countless less ambitious and risky films.
It is an uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them.
Skarsgard and Headey deliver perfectly meshed lead performances in a small, beautifully acted film that will make you squirm.
A journey that goes from prosaic to existential. Director Hans Petter Moland's raw drama of father-daughter reconciliation features an excellent cast.
In the end, grips us precisely because its actors are so utterly absorbed in their roles, so unfettered and nakedly expressive. This is the kind of acting we always look for, but rarely see.
It's a raw, haunting experience.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
71% Positive
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Production Company
Filmfabriken Baltic Sea AB,
Freeway Films,
Norsk Film
Release Date Aug 17, 2001
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Awards
Brussels European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Camerimage
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
