Cannes. Den brysomme mannen.

"For office drone Andreas, suicide is preferable to a world where everything is spotlessly clean, everyone's nice, and every home looks like an Ikea showroom," writes Leslie Felperin in Variety. "The Bothersome Man, the delightfully droll sophomore feature by Norwegian helmer Jens Lien (Jonny Vang) creates a surreal dystopia that's only a taupe-colored shade from a realist depiction of contempo Scandinavia."

As noted earlier, the Critics' Week feature won the ACID Award and Salon's Andrew O'Hehir writes, "[O]n first viewing I thought it was great, or at least highly original, or at least funny and creepy and highly worth seeing."

Posted by dwhudson at May 28, 2006 7:37 AM