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Andreaskorset (2004)
Director:
Martin Asphaug |
COUNTRY
Norway |
GENRE
Drama/Thriller/Horror |
INTERNATIONAL
TITLE
The
Crossing |
RUNNING
TIME
103 minutes |
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Producer:
Tomas Backström
Petter J. Borgli |
Screenwriter:
Eirik Ildahl |
Review
Stilted dialogue, lifeless acting, and heaves of unprobable plotting
make this alleged psychological thriller an exercise in how to make a
bad movie. Director Martin Asphaug reveals that he is dramatically
rooted in a bygone Norwegian film tradition which, in all honesty, never
was very effective, and the same must be said of this painful film. If
there is a hint of interest, it is through the film's wacky treatment of
sex, but Asphaug never manages to make the said scenes sexy, and we're
left baffled by the characters' lack of credibility and emotion. The
result is a film that remains as cold as stone, despite some outrageous
state of events. And whatever suspense Asphaug might have thought he
created, he should have remembered to make his audience care first.
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