SummaryA modern, raw, pitch-black comedy about a young woman who travels from Scotland to Norway to find her estranged, alcoholic father and bring him home. (First Run Features)
Directed By:Hans Petter Moland
Written By:Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen, Lars Bill Lundholm
Aberdeen
Metascore
Generally Favorable
78
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78
94% Positive
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90
Norway's hallucinatory, edge-of-the-world beauty imbues the story with a woozy, alcoholic haze and a sense of the marginal spaces into which the messiest aspects of private life are shoved.
90
It could have done with fewer plot devices, but it is ultimately far more satisfying than countless less ambitious and risky films.
88
It is an uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them.
80
Skarsgard and Headey deliver perfectly meshed lead performances in a small, beautifully acted film that will make you squirm.
75
A journey that goes from prosaic to existential. Director Hans Petter Moland's raw drama of father-daughter reconciliation features an excellent cast.
75
In the end, grips us precisely because its actors are so utterly absorbed in their roles, so unfettered and nakedly expressive. This is the kind of acting we always look for, but rarely see.
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It's a raw, haunting experience.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
83% Positive
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Aug 13, 2010
9
This was a good film about a grown up daughter and her alcoholic father as they try to come together, i really loved this film, the characters were great and the story was also good this iis one of the best daughter/father films ive ever seen.
Production Company:
- Filmfabriken Baltic Sea AB
- Freeway Films
- Norsk Film
Release Date:Aug 17, 2001
Duration:1 h 46 m
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Brussels European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Camerimage
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
