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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooh my, this film had me in knots!
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Having lived in Norway at one time in my life, I had a strong desire to gaze this when it turned up at last year’s Cork (Ireland) International Film Festival. I try not to miss Scandinavian films when they’re on, anyway, but the blurb sounded expedient, and so I went.
Scandinavian humour is known for being quite unlit, actually, and is sometimes hard to swallow. There are those who net British humour incomprehensible; they would accept Scandinavian humour insurmountable. That is, until they discover this film… (You know things will be expedient when you’re laughing hysterically within the first five or ten minutes.)
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The chronicle begins with a group of Swedish researchers, who are sent to the icy and frozen wilderness of Norway to contemplate the daily habits of middle-aged Norwegian bachelors. The premise for this visit is that the researchers are attempting to redesign kitchens for the usage of such characters; the observations will facilitate a more user-friendly remodelling. It isn’t too long after the introduction of the ‘suits’ that the viewer will be rolling on the floor in laughter. This comes about firstly by the inclusion of a bit of rather comic history: once upon a not-so-long ago, the Swedes drove on the left, and the Norwegians (as they always had done) drove on the apt. Consequently, the team of Swedish researchers, current from their border crossing into Norway, must suddenly avoid a arrive head-on collision, which leaves them discombobulated. Viewers familiar with the method the Swedish and the Norwegians are constantly jibing one another will immediately recognise the joke played on a clear group of meatball-lovers!
It only gets better. Folke, one of the observers who is destined to expend the next several months in a ridiculously high observation chair, is instructed to leer Isak, a grumpy conventional man and not-so-willing participant. A battle of the wills… and WITS… soon ensues. With very runt dialogue, the dynamic is area by the actions of each character. Will Folke be forced to destroy the observation? Or will Isak submit? (And how, incidentally, are the others getting on with their studies? )
You won’t fill the outcome.
Incidentally, the audience at the CIFF screening went exasperated for it! They were breathless with laughter, and often could hardly explore through their tears of mirth.
We humans are, by nature, a thoroughly inquisitive lot. We can’t benefit but want to know what it is that makes everything – including the people around us – “tick.” But can that curiosity, which has done so considerable to exclaim and arrive us as a species, also wind up draining all the spontaneity and fun out of life? If everything is catalogued and labeled and place into cramped boxes, what happens to that sense of mystery that makes life worth living? The Swedish film “Kitchen Stories” is an ingenious limited satire about mankind’s insatiable propensity to peruse and analyze every damn thing in life and to subject even our most mundane daily activities to the rigors of scientific enquiry.
It`s the 1950`s and a group of Swedish researchers have descended on Norway to search for “the kitchen habits of the single male,” a truly pressing worry if ever there was one. The project involves setting up an “observer” in a volunteer’s kitchen in order to gaze and narrate the subject`s every disappear, leading, hopefully, to kitchen designs that will show more fruitful and productive for the average citizen. The proviso is that there is to be no fraternizing whatsoever between the two parties, otherwise the “just” nature of the experiment will be ruined. This is truly life as lived under a microscope, and the demand early on becomes who will be the first to “crack” under the pressure of this totally unnatural station of affairs, the observer or the observed. And impartial how meaningful and grand could information gleaned from such a contrived, unnatural setup be anyway? Given the complexity of human nature, how worthy can such a peek truly snort us about ourselves and what we’re really like?
The film focuses on two men who are caught up in the study: Isak, the relatively reluctant subject, and Nilsson, the analyst who takes up site in Isak’s kitchen, perched high above him on a five foot spacious chair made especially for the occasion. At first, the air is tense between the two men, for Isak is not terrified about showing his positive resentment of this nonstop intrusion and prying into his daily life. But, after a few days, the mood thaws out and the two men become expeditiously friends, drawn to each other by their favorite humanity and need for companionship. Soon, they are breaking all the “rules” of the seek, sharing food, beverages and conversation with untoward abandon.
Some people may peek this film as an allegory of life under a totalitarian regime, with the individual’s every depart being observed, recorded and monitored by an authoritarian power. I examine it more as a simple see in human nature, as two men triumph over a dehumanized institution. Either plot, the film does an curious job showing impartial how easily the observer can become the observed if he lets his guard down. The film boasts sterling performances from Joachim Calmeyer as Isak, Tomas Norstrom as Nilsson, Bjorn Floberg as Isak’s jealous friend, Grant, and Reine Brynolfsson as Nilsson’s serious, Nervous Nelly boss who, like Grant, can’t abide the intimacy he sees developing between evaluator and subject (albeit for totally different reasons) .
“Kitchen Stories” is a smooth, almost muted film in which the characters rarely converse above a vow, reflecting the somber mood of both the clinical experiment and the stark winter background against which the record takes location. Yet, there is warmth and humor in the relationship between Isak and Nilsson, and a grand deal of quirky humor in both the premise and director Curved Hamer’s sly execution of it. This is a film for those in search of the recent and the offbeat.
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