Salmer fra kjøkkenet (2003)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Isak Bjørvik	Joachim Calmeyer
Folke Nilsson	Tomas Norström	½
Grant	Bjørn Floberg	½
Malmberg	Reine Brynolfsson	½
Dr. Jack Zac. Benjaminsen	Sverre Anker Ousdal
Dr. Ljungberg	Leif Andrée
Bakkerman	Gard B. Eidsvold
Green	Lennart Jähkel
Ordfører	Trond Brænne
Vaktmester	Bjørn Jenseg
Vaktmesterassistent	Jan Gunnar Røise

Review

Norwegian director Bent Hamer continues to make quirky, odd peeks into the domestic lives of rural Norway. This time, he intertwines his distinctive humour with pondering satirically on the behaviouristic tradition deployed in psychology for large parts of the previous century. The result is often amusing and sometimes relevant as Hamer mixes some of the best Norwegian and Swedish talent to co-produce this binational feature. Like many films in the Scandinavian tradition, Salmer fra kjøkkenet is low-key and unpolished. It toys with the Nordic nature of reservation, and turns our two leads, Calmeyer and Norström, into an unlikely but still predictable odd-couple. The film remains light-weight throughout, but it has humour and irony which enables it to amuse, if not captivate.