The Bothersome Man
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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2006
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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.
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Runtime:
95 min
Release date:
26 May 2006
Country:
IS, NO
Languages:
Norwegian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
26 wins & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
This absurdist black comedy from Norway is unlike any other movie you'll see this year, but as allegory, it's a bit too literal-minded.
– Joshua Land,
Time Out New York,
18 Jan 2008
fresh:
This is a bizarre social satire that mixes the mild-mannered humor of Jacques Tati with stunningly gory slapstick.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
20 Sep 2007
fresh:
[A] pitch-black, bone-dry comedy.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
25 Aug 2007
fresh:
A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, The Bothersome Man unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
24 Aug 2007
rotten:
Director Jens Lien mostly favors the clean and bland, succumbing to much of the same pod-person impassivity that the movie purports to critique.
– Rob Nelson,
Village Voice,
21 Aug 2007