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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its deadpan, meticulously composed urban scenes turn everyday life into a bleakly comic nightmare, sharing The Bothersome Man’s sense of spiritual numbness beneath orderly modern surfaces.
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Why this pick
An emotionally regulated society enforces intimate rules with calm, comic brutality. The clipped performances, institutional absurdity and uneasy search for genuine feeling make it a strong tonal companion.
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Why this pick
A minor bureaucrat attempts to preserve imagination and connection inside an oppressive, absurd administrative machine. It is more exuberant, but shares the surreal anti-consumerist dread and doomed escape impulse.
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Why this pick
Buñuel punctures affluent routine through elegantly escalating surreal interruptions. Its cool, dreamlike mockery of bourgeois comfort anticipates the hollow civility and disquiet beneath The Bothersome Man.
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01 / THE STORY
As the movie begins, Andreas Ramsfjell (Trond Fausa Aurvåg) is underground in a train station watching a couple kiss; however, the kiss lacks any sign of aesthetics - on the contrary, it looks hideous and abominable. Andreas seems to be increasingly unsettled until eventually he steps forward and jumps off the track in front of a Rapid transit and the scene abruptly ends. In the following scene, he is on a bus which lets him off at a deserted gas station in the middle of nowhere. An older man greets Andreas with a welcome sign and escorts him into a car. From here he makes his way into an seemingly ideal city, where he soon finds himself with a corporate job, a furnished apartment and a beautiful girlfriend (Petronella Barker (actress born 1965)). The seemingly perfect life soon proves to be vacuous. Andreas seems to be the only person in the city capable of experiencing sensation and emotion. The only respite from the emptiness is a meaningless Consumerism. As the slightly uncomfortable turns into the absurd, Andreas tries to escape, but finds there is no way out of the city. The beginning scene is revealed again in the midst of his misery after he gets his heart broken and he steps out onto the train tracks, only to find that not even suicide is a way out of the perfect city. Eventually he meets Hugo (Per Schaaning), a cleaner who has found a crack in the walls of his basement from which lovely music streams out. The two dig frantically, in secret, through the wall and discover it leads into a house, presumably back in the real world. Andreas manages to get his arm into the house and grabs a handful of cake from the table, but both of them are caught and dragged out of the basement. Andreas gets thrown out of the city on the same bus that brought him there. The film ends with a violent ride into a frozen wasteland where the bus leaves Andreas, alone in a snowstorm.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Anne Britt
Håvard
Trulsen
Andreas
Harald
