Posts tagged Norway
Review: Pathfinder (1987)
Review: Pathfinder (1987)

Retelling a Sami legend, Nils Gaup’s Pathfinder is both an act of cultural preservation and a thrilling action-adventure.

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Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromPathfinder, Norway, Sami, Nils Gaup, Mikkel Gaup, Nils Utsi, Helgi Skulason, Sarah Marit Gaup, Scandinavian, foot chase, Nordic skiing, folk tale, indigenous peoples, ethnography, cultural preservation, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, Best Foreign Language Film, Middle AgesComment
Review: Shipwrecked (1990)
Review: Shipwrecked (1990)

Shipwrecked is a competent boys’ own adventure, played without irony, revisionism, or computer-generated fakeness.

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Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromShipwrecked, shipwreck, boys' own adventure, adventure, adventure at sea, Nils Gaup, Bob Foss, Greg Dinner, Nick Thiel, Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Kjell Stormoen, Norway, Scandinavian, Treasure Island, real locations, pirates, treasureComment
Review: The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Review: The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World expresses the ineffable in ways that are rarely achieved on film.

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Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromThe Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner, Helene Bjorneby, Vidar Sandem, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Lasse Gretland, Karen Roise Kielland, Marianne Krogh, Thea Stabell, Deniz Kaya, Eia Skjonsberg, NorwayComment