2006 · drama · comedy · sci-fi
The Bothersome Man (Norway)
Directed by Jens Lien1h 35m2006
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.
Our read: The Bothersome Man (Norway) (2006) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal drama · comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, gentle drama / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- surreal
- intimate
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