I knew nothing about the film in beforehand, except it containing some sad everyday stories in a city day life. It starts off with a prologue with a boss drunk driving with an older employee, forcing her to take the blame when he kills a pedestrian during night in the city streets, with no spectators.
A great strange start, seemingly without any pointin the film, except telling us this is not a very happy story. And, it isn't. Lønsj (which means Lunch in English) is a title telling us about some everyday lives in a city (this being Oslo, but that's not significant). The international title of this film is Cold lunch.
We meet our three "stars" which is more like unhappy common every day humans struggling with things in their lives. One struggling with paying his rent, hating his work, being the reason for the second to have to leave home as a nervous wreck. The second having to leave her home of her father and go outside after having her neighbors killing her father after the "one" having caused a energy failure trying to steal a wash in their cellar. The third is a fresh mom realizing having started life with the wrong guy, actually not able to cope with his job, making her regret she ever met him.
This film awaits a culmination that's not coming. We're probably supposed to understand that life will go on for these sad figures, which all seem to have a very bad day. A day where the seagulls seem to have a bad warning to every one in the city, resembling Hitchcocks frightening "The Birds" in the bottom of their day. And it goes even worse, leaving it all up to your own imagination.
This film has very strong acting performances. You believe in the strange persons, but most viewers will hate that the story runs out in our own imaginations, without telling us what is the point. This is a risk taking the manuscript and the director obviously want us to be happy with. This is tough difficult for most to comprehend, and make the film difficult to love in the end.
The sad stories are though thought-provoking if you'd like them to be, and the bad day in their lives will make you find a smile on your lips if you'd like to see this as a comedy. Which it isn't. But laughing at the misery is the best you can do, hoping their bad day will go away.
The film offers no solutions, just questions. This is one of the films where you'll appreciate good acting, interesting starting plots and hating you have to use your imagination in the end.
Does the film function? I don't know for sure. A bad day in the city for sure. Will you learn something? Probably not. Except: Thank God this isn't a day in your life. Or is it...!? Be aware of the seagulls, though!
A great strange start, seemingly without any pointin the film, except telling us this is not a very happy story. And, it isn't. Lønsj (which means Lunch in English) is a title telling us about some everyday lives in a city (this being Oslo, but that's not significant). The international title of this film is Cold lunch.
We meet our three "stars" which is more like unhappy common every day humans struggling with things in their lives. One struggling with paying his rent, hating his work, being the reason for the second to have to leave home as a nervous wreck. The second having to leave her home of her father and go outside after having her neighbors killing her father after the "one" having caused a energy failure trying to steal a wash in their cellar. The third is a fresh mom realizing having started life with the wrong guy, actually not able to cope with his job, making her regret she ever met him.
This film awaits a culmination that's not coming. We're probably supposed to understand that life will go on for these sad figures, which all seem to have a very bad day. A day where the seagulls seem to have a bad warning to every one in the city, resembling Hitchcocks frightening "The Birds" in the bottom of their day. And it goes even worse, leaving it all up to your own imagination.
This film has very strong acting performances. You believe in the strange persons, but most viewers will hate that the story runs out in our own imaginations, without telling us what is the point. This is a risk taking the manuscript and the director obviously want us to be happy with. This is tough difficult for most to comprehend, and make the film difficult to love in the end.
The sad stories are though thought-provoking if you'd like them to be, and the bad day in their lives will make you find a smile on your lips if you'd like to see this as a comedy. Which it isn't. But laughing at the misery is the best you can do, hoping their bad day will go away.
The film offers no solutions, just questions. This is one of the films where you'll appreciate good acting, interesting starting plots and hating you have to use your imagination in the end.
Does the film function? I don't know for sure. A bad day in the city for sure. Will you learn something? Probably not. Except: Thank God this isn't a day in your life. Or is it...!? Be aware of the seagulls, though!