I had heard a lot of good things about the film when it played in Norway, and had wanted to see it for a long time. So when I saw it was scheduled to play at the Tribeca Film Festival, I was very excited. Fortunately, I was in no way disappointed.
The film was great. Of course not only because it was shot in Norway. The story, the characters, the special effects, the filming, the acting and the great mixture between horror, sci-fi, comedy and absurdity. It was all done in a great manner.
Still, it was extra fun when the movie was Norwegian, especially when I got to see the fjords and the mountains and the valleys and the great forests again. It got even better when a big part of the movie was shot in the area I'm from. It was simply hilarious to hear the strange but so familiar dialects of my county again. That some of my favorite Norwegian comedians was in the movie, too, just made it even greater.
But the best thing of all was that we got to see this film in NYC. It was so surreal to sit there, in a cinema in one of the biggest city in the world, and see this so very small and so very Norwegian movie. 'Cause it was indeed SO Norwegian. The nature, the people, the humor, the theme and the storytelling. For a while it felt like I was back in Norway, just to walk out to the busy streets of NYC and discover it was only a movie.
Even though I love this city, I think I love Norway the most.
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