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Wam & Vennerød

FULL NAME	Svend Olaf Wamnes Aktuft
BORN/DIED	5 May 1946 in Son, Norway 7 May 2017 in Vestby, Norway (71 years)
FULL NAME	Petter Vennerød
BORN/DIED	25 September 1948 in Oslo, Norway 19 September 2021 (72 years)
REVIEWED ENTRIES	8
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AVERAGE RATING	2.69

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BIO

With their characteristically stylized and often pretentious social realism, Svend Wam and Petter Vennerød defined Norwegian cinema from the mid 1970s to the early 1990s. They were ambitious filmmakers with a particular voice who weren't afraid of taking on subjects which were considered controversial on screen at the time, from vulgarisms, explicit eroticism and homosexuality to the conflict between the counterculture of their youth (1960s and 1970s) and the consumerism of their middle-age (1980s). Wam & Vennerød never lacked critics, especially in the Norwegian press, but most of their films attracted relatively large audiences in their native country – and they all had interesting aspects to them, even when they not quite worked (Adjø solidaritet) or fell completely flat (Lakki). Their magnum opus remains their 1976 film Lasse & Geir, which is a great watch to this day, much thanks to Wam's crisp dialogue and the delightfully polemic lead characters. The dinner scene from said film is probably among the most potent single scenes in Norwegian film history.

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