Cool and Crazy

Name: Cool and Crazy
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: October 19, 2001
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 73

2001

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First Run Features | Release Date: October 19, 2001

Summary: A documentary about the lives and loves of the male voice choir in the small fishing village of Berlevag, Norway.

Director: Knut Erik Jensen

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Runtime: 89 min

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100

Michael Wilmington

It's so thoroughly engaging, so beautifully made, strikingly shot and chock-full of humor and humanity, I can't imagine any intelligent audience not falling in love with it - if only they take the leap of faith to see it. Read full review

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New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

Not to be missed. Read full review

Lisa Alspector

Jensen's use of the conventions of documentary making -- and his undermining of them in ways both bold and subtle -- seems too canny and consistent for the form. Yet the harder I try to decide whether this is a documentary or a parody, the more I wonder why it matters. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Unusual and utterly disarming documentary. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

Ranging in age from 30 to 96, the Berlevag men clearly enjoy being on camera and are unusually candid about their various pasts as Casanovas and hashish addicts.

Elizabeth Weitzman

Every time things start to get dull, you're brought up short by another moment of surprising beauty. Read full review

Ed Park

If music be the food of love, Cool & Crazy could stand a few more hits from the spice rack. Read full review

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71	#71 Best Movie of 2001

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