The film i was really here to see tonight was outsourced, a film about a seattle man sent to india to set up a call center to replace the people who work for him, and of course his own replacement too. At first i worried that the film was going to have fun at the expense of the indian people, and while it does do some of that, it makes as much. Official selection toronto, karlovy vary and london intl ffs. The middle section was so violent, dark and hilarious, especially for a scifihorror type movie. The attractive plot is perfectly supported by a smart direction where every single component cool desaturated. But what constitutes a political film, asks michael chanan. There are no rewards, no punishments, no ghostly houris, no plentiful hunting grounds and no civitate dei contra paganos it is a world stripped of morality, principle and politics. October 2007 media services news american university. A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razorsharp edges, the bothersome man unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems. Watch bothersome man english subtitled prime video. He has a job, a flat, a beautiful girlfriend, but somehow, something just. It was directed by jens lien after a script by per h.
But before long, andreas notices that something is. Trond fausa aurvag as an accountant bewildered by soulless surroundings in the bothersome man. The story is about a man suddenly finding himself in an outwardly perfect, yet essentially soulless dystopia, and his attempt to escape. Film festival gems foreign 4film dvd raja the island.
Liens cynical worldview might be tolerable if it werent such a headscratcher. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers theres no way out. This is an alphabetical list of film articles or sections within articles about films. The bothersome man b wild tigers i have known b shut up and sing. He is presented with a job, an apartmenteven a wife. Norway fortyyearold andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. Maybe it was because i wasnt expecting much, but part of it was a complete surprise to me that i definitely didnt expect. Its hard to tell if lien or screenwriter per schreiner realise quite how narrow and. Bothersome man is a stark yet strangely lyrical, multilayered dirge for the absurdity of human fate in the face of figuratively deadening social conformity, and on the other hand, literal mortality. For a moment the film begins to resemble miike takashis audition, another sly comment on middleclass mores which descended into surprising and disturbing violence. Or maybe andreas isnt even dead and the bothersome man is meant as an allegory about norwegian modern life, in which case the film doesnt fly at allor completely flew over my head. Jens liens pitchblack, bonedry comedy the bothersome man combines a fairly wellworn pastiche of several individual vs. An undercover lapd cop struggles to find a balance between his professional life running sting operations and his family life raising three adopted kids.
Im a londonbased film critic with too much time on his hands. Looking for strange or offbeat modern films progressive. A middleaged man steps off a bus in a town he doesnt know, with no idea how he came to be there. He is presented with a job, an apartment even a wife. The bothersome man letterboxd social film discovery. Harry potter complete 8film collection dvd us shipping. Download or stream the bothersome man 2007 with trond fausa aurvag, jens lien, petronella barker for free on hoopla. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. The bothersome man 2006 15 05262006 no comedy, drama, fantasy 1h 30m user score. The film opens with slackfaced depressive trond fausa aurvaag stepping in front of a subway train and blacking out. This is the movie where the narrator fails to find his tyler durden and suffers instead the ikea banalities of the modern world. Its hard to tell if lien or screenwriter per schreiner realise quite how narrow and offensive the premise of their film is. The bothersome man international trailer 2007 international trailer for the bothersome man.
The bothersome man is reminiscent of so many other films, from dark city to monty python, and yet is its own simple and welltold short story. With joshua bitton, eric bruskotter, david castro, melinda clarke. Palm springs international film festival 2007 berlin and beyond, san francisco 2007. There were 3 sections to the movie, each directed by a different director. As a film alone, it is a scathing comedy on society and attitudes in the postmodern world we live in. The world of the bothersome man is the kind of afterlife you might get from a religion committed to complete moral relativism. The bothersome man is interesting enough to while away a rainy afternoon perhaps but comes across to me as an extended quirky alternative music video more than a profound,stylish or indeed classic film. Watch bothersome man english subtitled now on your favorite device.
This is a world in which the majority of people live. But the bothersome man entirely lacks the earlier films integrity, or its intelligence. The bothersome man is a puzzling film to be sure and one without enough closure or certainty so it will frustrate viewers not inclined to look for a philosophical meaning in their cinema but its worth a look for a decidedly different view of norway and liens sophomore film not only earned numerous awards including a few amanda accolades. The film apparently per schreiner first wrote the bothersome man as a radio play, and the big screen adaptation of the award winning play comes a couple of years after the original production. Really one of the better movies ive seen this year. I loved the strange humor of certain scenes, i loved the landscapes and the production design, i loved the way the director forces us to find a meaning in this tale. Has later won more than 30 international awards all over the world including golden starfish at hampton international film festival.
Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today. The story revolves around our hero, andreas, who suddenly arrives in an ordinary, presentday metropolis that is outwardly perfect, but in essence a dispassionate, soulless hell. Fortyyearold andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. It is the second feature film directed by jens lien and the film combines a strong sense of modern fable and absurdism. But before long, andreas notices that something is wrong.
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