Northern Stars 2010 / Director: Hans Petter Moland
A Somewhat Gentle Man
With its off-the-wall-and-well-out-the-door humor, flashes of violence and broad-brushed, quirky personalities, the pic feels almost like an homage to older Coen brothers movies (they might as well retitle it A Somewhat Serious Man and be done with it). At the same time, the characters' distinctive genial gruffness and adherence to bourgeois propriety even in the shabbiest circumstances, and the underplayed comedy throughout, mark the pic's sensibility as distinctly Scandinavian. Helmer Molland seems to have got his mojo back after his disappointing, tonally uneven last Comrade Pedersen, and displays here an airy lightness rarely glimpsed before in his work.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Original name: En Ganske Snill Man
Norway (2010)
Duration: 92 min
Dialogue: Norwegian
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
Duration: 92 min
Dialogue: Norwegian
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
