Kitchen Stories (2003)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 75
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 8
By turns touching and funny, this Norwegian import offers quietly absorbing commentary on modern life and friendship.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 1
By turns touching and funny, this Norwegian import offers quietly absorbing commentary on modern life and friendship.
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Director Bent Hamer's comedy drama Salmer Fra Kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories) is based on the real-life social experiments conducted in Sweden during the 1950s. In the years following WWII, a research institute sets out to modernize the home kitchen by observing a handful of rural Norwegian bachelors. In the small town of Landstad, middle-aged Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) is one such research subject who regrets ever agreeing to participate in the study. Nevertheless, he is observed by Folke (Tomas
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Cast
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Joachim Calmeyer
Isak -
Tomas Norström
Folke -
Bjørn Floberg
Grant -
Reine Brynolfsson
Malmberg -
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Dr. Jack Zac Benjaminse... -
Leif Andrée
Dr. Ljungberg -
Gard B. Eidswold
Bakkerman -
Lennart Jahkel
Green -
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All Critics (85) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (8) | DVD (8)
An ingeniously dry and bittersweet comedy about that 1940s and '50s research.
Top CriticA prime piece of comic anthropology.
What starts as a satire of the methodical, modernity-seeking society in Sweden ends as a heartwarming dramatic comedy in Norway.
A thoroughly charming oddity. And, in the end, a moving one, too.
Kitchen Stories is so subtle that many viewers will not be aware that it's screamingly funny.
The droll humour, penned by Hamer with collaborator Jorgen Bergmark, works best at a non-verbal level, when the well-cast Isak and Folke are silently sizing each other up.
The charm and chemistry of the two leads and subtle, wry moments of humor make for an endearing entertainment.
Not the sort of film you'd want a steady diet of, but as a change of pace from the ordinary, it's well worth a look.
One of those rare winning exceptions to the axiom that movies should move, this one shows what advantage can be earned when men of good will sit still together.
What you're left with is a relationship between two men that is untouched by macho posturing or any trace of anxiety -- and a perfect respite from the action flick mentality.
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Foreign Titles
- Salmer Fra Kjokkenet - Kitchen Stories (UK)
- Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra kjøkkenet) (CA)
