2001 · comedy · drama · friendship
Elling
Directed by Petter Næss1h 29m2001
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.
Our read: Elling (2001) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · friendship entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
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- intimate
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