2014 has been a very good year for Norwegian cinema on the international festival circuit. In February, a pair of exports from this Scandinavian nation attracted favorable attention at the Berlinale, where Kraftidioten (In Order of Disappearance) appeared in the Competition division and Blind played in the Panorama program. This fall has seen 1001 Grams garner comparable praise after showings in Toronto and London. The three films share an engaging sense of quirkiness in the writing, ultra-professional and understated acting, clean, crisp cinematography, and terrifically paced and assured directing. (more…)
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1001 Grams Review
Posted: October 23, 2014 in 2014 London Film Festival, Comedy, Drama, Foreign, ReviewsTags: Ane Dahl Torp, Bent Hamer, Laurent Stocker, Norwegian Films, Stein Winge
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Blind Review
Posted: October 22, 2014 in 2014 Berlinale, 2014 London Film Festival, Drama, Foreign, ReviewsTags: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Eskil Vogt, Norwegian Films
How can you trust if you cannot see?
If you lose your sight, how can you be sure that your husband is not sneaking into the room to stare at you? How would you know if your hair is graying? How could you read the results of a home pregnancy test?
Sightlessness is not a mere disability in Eskil Vogt’s sublime debut feature, Blind. It is solitary confinement, isolation on a strange, new planet fashioned by one’s imagination with indeterminate physical laws and a time-space relationship unique to a particular universe. Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) has a rare condition that robbed her of her sight as an adult. Her visual memory is fading, and even though she exercises it daily, her doctor informs her that she will lose it all together one day. (more…)
Meet Mr. Karma 