Bortreist på ubestemt tid (1974)

	Directed by: Pål Bang-Hansen	COUNTRY Norway Genre Thriller INTERNATIONAL TITLE Gone Until Further Notice RUNNING TIME 100 minutes
	Produced by: Egil Monn-Iversen
	Written by: Pål Bang-Hansen

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Alex	Svein Scharffenberg
Helen	Ingerid Vardund
Martin	Lasse Kolstad
Christina	Julie Ege	-
Politifullmektig	Per Christensen	-

Review

The continental directional style sets this film apart among its Norwegian contemporaries. Director Pål Bang-Hansen is constantly on the move; he has a sense of urgency and ambition about him. But although the story has potential as a murder mystery, the characters are not drawn out well enough for us to care about them. And in addition to the often stilted dialogue between them, this contributes to keeping them distant and theoretical. When your protagonist is a prick, the least you should do is make him interesting. Egil Monn-Iversen both produced and provided an abrasive, unatmospheric score which does little to improve the impression.