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NORWAY
Marius
Holst
Holst's tense psychological drama is about the past that never really
goes away. Maria and Eddie, a seemingly unlikely couple, have left the
city behind to start a bucolic new life in the remote countryside. One
day, by chance, Eddie runs into his former best pal, an ex-con named Kullmann,
at a gas station and invites him for dinner at their cozy, rundown farmhouse.
The stage is set for a dramatic turn of events that
will threaten to tear apart everything that Maria and Eddie have worked
for. It seems Kullman has come to stay, and as the tensions mount, a power
struggle develops among the trio, complicated by secrets, obsessive jealousy,
conflicted loyalties and debts come due. With a tension that recalls Roman
Polanski's Knife in the Water, Holst ratchets up the pressure slowly and
masterfully-visually rather than verbally-until things blow with devasting
force. (110 mins.) Print courtesy of Norwegian Film Institute.
Filmography: Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (97).
Showtimes: 2/18, 7pm WH and 2/20, 8:45pm
BW.
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