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What a delight!During my desperate hours this forum came through with some great recommendations!
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It is a delightful film, but you may find, as have I, that it does not stay with you for too long.
...in a theater circa 2003-2004.Just because Kitchen Stories is small scale doesn't mean it's about small things.
I have seen many "big films" that have not stayed with me. I certainly remember the film, but as with most European films, it is character driven, not plot driven. I certainly remember the relationship between the observer and the observee, and the change in their relationship over the course of the film.But the details and the dialog have faded from my memory, leaving me with the belief that it is a pleasant film, but not one that left an lasting impression with me.
As an example, I saw "Color of Paradise", by the Iranian Director Majid Majidi many moons ago. The opening scene shows a young blind boy locating by sound a baby bird which has fallen from its nest, and then show this blind boy (the child actor is really blind) climbing a tree by feel at risk to life and limb to place the bird back into its nest, which he must also located by the crying sounds of the other baby birds. No words are spoken. Yet it is a scene that will likely last me with forever.
Kitchen Stories was a good film, but nothing in the film stayed with me like Color of Paradise.
Granted it'd be a really sort soundtrack, but I'd like to hear more by the person who performed the opening piano number, and hearing American pop singers performing in Swedish is also fun.
like the undercurrent of anger between the Danish and the Swedes: one actively resisted the Nazis, the other did not (it's been awhile since I saw this film so it may have been Norwegians and Danes, or Swedes and Norwegians, or...).
The observer was Swedish, the host Norwegian. Norway was occupied by Germany and was basically its ally (albeit a reluctant one), Sweden remained neutral. However, to be fair to both, their respected status was not as much result of their own actions, but more of the German decision. Hitler invaded Norway, planned to invade Sweden, but never gotten to it.I thought that history played only a very minor role in the film though. The focal point was of course the people, and the two main actors did remarkably well.
comments at the end which threw a bit of light on the relationship, probably moreso on that of the supervisor and the observer.
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