Norway Festival At Cineplex

May 15, 2003

This weekend, as part of celebrations to mark the Norwegian Constitutional Day, May 17, Cineplex Cinema, in conjunction with the Norwegian Embassy, will host the Norwegian film festival.

By Sebidde Kiryowa
This weekend, as part of celebrations to mark the Norwegian Constitutional Day, May 17, Cineplex Cinema, in conjunction with the Norwegian Embassy, will host the Norwegian film festival. Seven Norwegian movies show over three days, starting this Sunday. Only Clouds Move the Stars (PG 7) will open the festival at 1:00pm. Directed by Torun Lian, this drama, is about an 11-year-old girl, Maria, who has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together.
At 2:00pm is Cool & Crazy, a documentary by director Stein Eikanger. For some, this will be a film about men. For others, it will be about love, politics or even fish. Above all, it is about the dignity of ordinary lives lived under extreme circumstances. We meet members of Berlevåg Male Choir in northern part of Norway.
At 4:30pm is director Stein Eikanger’s comedy Little Odd Man. In the movie, Young Oddeman sees and hears things which adults stopped noticing. This ability results in him trying to find Jesus — there were many Jesus observations in the 1930s and Oddman sees no reason why he should not also be able to catch a glimpse of our Saviour. At 7:00pm, is director Petter Næss’ drama Elling (PG 11). After two years in a psychiatric Clinic, Elling is set to return to an apparently everyday life. Along with his somewhat more challenged roommate, he has been given a welfare apartment in Oslo.
Insomnia (PG 15), director Erik Skjoldbjærg’s wicked thriller, will be showing at 9:30pm. In the movie, Two criminal investigators from the capital travel to northern Norway to assist the local police in a murder case. Another murder soon follows, and the investigation ends in a manhunt where the stakes are high both for hunter and the hunted.
The Prompter (PG 7), which premieres on Monday May 19 at 2:00pm is a sad yet cheerful story about an opera prompter’s life both at work and at home.
The Greatest Thing (PG 7) was directed by Thomas Robsahm. The film to show Tuesday at 7:00pm, is based on one of the prime 19th Century Norwegian novels — the Nobel Prize Laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s The Fisherman’s Daughter. The story is set around 1860 and centres on the fatherless and fearless Petra, and the theme is self-realisation and the discovery of a vocation. This is an irreverent comedy, fast moving and full of charm, which at the same time makes spectacular use of dramatic Norwegian scenery - creating a truly romantic fable for today. Ends

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