Aberdeen

Rating:
Summary: A Great Film
Review: Abderdeen is a wonderful film; I actually saw it on the Sundance CHannel months before it came out (I love Sundance CHannel) and found it thoroughly enjoyable. THe plot is realistic if a bit sporadic and inconsistent in its flow (which suits this particular story). THe cinematography is wonderful and the shot compositions are extremely well-done...for anyone seriously interested in learning the craft, this is a movie to definitely own on DVD.

Rating:
Summary: Amazing Film
Review: I saw Aberdeen at a film festival last March. It is an all around wonderful film. I fell in love with the characters and their journey to Kaisa's mother. Also, the cinematography is brilliant. Such as the scene with Kaisa and Clive eating at the restaurant-wonderful shot! Everyone must find a way to see this film!

Rating:
Summary: Amazing Film
Review: I saw Aberdeen at a film festival last March. It is an all around wonderful film. I fell in love with the characters and their journey to Kaisa's mother. Also, the cinematography is brilliant. Such as the scene with Kaisa and Clive eating at the restaurant-wonderful shot! Everyone must find a way to see this film!

Rating:
Summary: A good film...
Review: If you want to see Lena Heady's breasts exposed, this is the film to watch. But besides the numerous unnecessary topless scenes (which aren't too bad) this film is very intriguing...the human spirit tries to break through walls of addiction, frustration and isolation... now isn't that what a "suspense" drama should be about?

Rating:
Summary: A good film...
Review: If you want to see Lena Heady's breasts exposed, this is the film to watch. But besides the numerous unnecessary topless scenes (which aren't too bad) this film is very intriguing...the human spirit tries to break through walls of addiction, frustration and isolation... now isn't that what a "suspense" drama should be about?

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Summary: Painful, touching film about bruised family relationships
Review: The situation: Kaisa, one tough lady (for good reason, as the film makes clear later on) is asked by her dying mother to bring her father back for one last visit. Kaisa has her work cut out for her, because her father is a difficult case- drunk, surly and bitingly sarcastic to boot. He's more than an equal match for Kaisa...and that's saying a lot.
This situation could make for simple sentimental pap in the hands of the wrong director but here it turns out to be a very believable and watchable movie - although it won't be to everyone's taste. The relationship and years of bad feelings between Kaisa and her father lead to moments which are sometimes painful to watch. If you want a fun, escapist movie, far engaged from hard reality, don't pick this one up. But if you're willing to watch a movie with some bite to it, you should find this one well worth watching. An extra bonus: The music is absolutely wonderful, not the sort of usual background music that tries to tweak the viewer's emotions.

Rating:
Summary: One Of The Better Nordic Movies
Review: This is an excellent movie. As noted by other reviewers, the soundtrack is excellent, and the acting is first rate.

Skarsgard never seems to miss in any film, but in Aberdeen, his performance as a lost alcoholic groping towards recovery is so good it is on a par with fellow Swede and Cannes Film winner Per Oscarsson's stunning and seminal 1966 performance as a starving writer in Henning Carlsen's Hunger.

Lena Headey is remarkable as the talented yuppie with a host of skeletons in her closet. It should also be noted that Ian Hart's performance as the humble, self effacing truck driver Clive is great. He functions as the perfect match and foil to both Skarsgard's and Headey's characters. The final scenes of the movie are powerful, and reminds me a lot of some aspects of the personal life of the great Danish director, Lar Van Trier, who won much deserved accolades for his near perfect execution in Breaking the Waves.

Like many Nordic films, Aberdeen isn't shy about nudity as viewers should be aware that there are numerous sexual scenes and frontal nudity.