Kitchen Stories
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Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings
- Starring: Joachim Calmeyer, Tomas Norström
- Summary: In the early '50s the Home Research Institute in Sweden sends 18 observers to the rural district of Landstad, Norway, with its surplus of bachelors, to study the kitchen routines of single men. (IFC Films)
- Director: Bent Hamer
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Positive: 32 out of 33
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90There's nothing casual about the way this film has been put together, yet that painstaking care leads to laughter that is completely unrestrained.
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80Like all good films, it raises these types of questions, answering some, and leaving some for you to answer yourself.
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80In the wonderfully droll Kitchen Stories, Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer takes an already inspired premise and weaves it into a spry absurdist comedy that also manages to find some considerable warmth.
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60Slight but sardonic, Norwegian director Bent Hamer's deadpan Kitchen Stories makes a taciturn comedy of nothingness out of color-coordinated '50s coziness and Scandinavian social planning.
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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