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The Bothersome Man

2006 · 95 min

A quietly unsettling, surreal experience that feels like a dream you can't wake from, blending deadpan humor with creeping dread.

Overview
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • loneliness
  • survival
  • rebellion
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour5
Realism6
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Genres
comedy, drama, fantasy
Directed by
Jens Lien
Written by
Per Schreiner
Starring
Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Petronella Barker, Per Schaanning, Birgitte Larsen, Johannes Joner, Ellen Horn, Anders T. Andersen, Sigve Bøe
Cinematography
John Christian Rosenlund
Runtime
95 min
Country
Iceland, Norway
Languages
Norwegian

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