Norwegian Bent Hamer earned himself quite a bit of fame with his first feature, Eggs. Carrying on the burlesque style of the first film, he tells the story of Almar, a young Norwegian sailor whose gold watch, of great sentimental value, has been broken. While waiting for repairs in a remote Spanish town, he meets a number of unusual characters: Windy, an Australian seafarer with unusual experiences, real or imaginary; Marta, a beautiful Spanish girl; Martha’s bizarre grandfather; and two old watchmakers who are painfully methodical. It seems to Almar that real time has also stopped when his watch did. “En Dag Til I Solen” is an offbeat comedy which is highly entertaining.
-All Movie Guide

	
En.dag.til.i.solen.1998.PAL.DVD.DD5.1.x264-toho.mkv

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Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd…

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Language:Norwegian
Subtitles:English

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When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by.

The international prototype kilogram of 1889, the mother of all kilos, is today kept in a vault at Bureau International des Poids et Mesures BIPM in Paris. It is the last physical weight reference still in use and the national prototypes must from time to time be transported from their respective countries to Paris in order to be recalibrated

Debra Young @ Hollywood Reporter wrote:
Master of the humanist comedy Bent Hamer ponders the weight of the human soul in Norway’s Oscar hopeful

No, it’s not about drugs; 1001 Grams refers to the weight of a kilogram plus a little something extra. Despite the weighty title, this is an extremely light, delicate art film that rarely makes a false move. For those who know Bent Hamer’s work, this Norwegian-Parisian love story between two scientists will come as another pleasant installment in his warm stories about human beings and their need for each other. For others the film may seem all too fly-weight and hard to get a handle on, making it not an easy choice outside of festival sophisticates. It is being proposed as Norway’s Academy Award hopeful.

With his prize-winning films beginning with 1995’s Eggs, Hamer has developed a loyal following who won’t be disappointed at the slightly off-kilter tale that toes a sweet line between irony and something straighter. Marie (Ane Dahl Torp) works at the Norwegian institute of weights and measures, where a prototype weight of the national kilo is kept locked in a vault. Treated with such enormous reverence that it can only seem absurd, this shiny platinum and iridium measure needs to be transported to Paris for an international conference, where it will be weighed to make sure it hasn’t gained or lost a microgram. Marie’s esteemed father, Ernst (Stein Winge), would normally be the one making the trip, but he is first ailing, then hospitalized. Before he dies, he muses to Marie, his only remaining family, on how much his ashes will weigh when he’s cremated. This metaphor of weighing one’s life and values hangs a little heavily over some of the dialogue.

Played with glassy precision by Torp, Marie is not a brittle woman, but she does have an overly rational approach to her life. She drives a tiny but practical electric car, which overturns at a certain crucial bend in the story, and watches dispassionately as her ex moves his furniture and other belongings out of her ultramodern house. When the task of transporting the national kilo to Paris falls on her shoulders, it becomes the occasion for a journey of self-discovery, a sort of quiet, Bent Hamer meltdown.
Closest to his 2003 film Kitchen Stories in which the Swedish Home Research Institute studies how to standardize household kitchens on a more efficient factory model, here the focus is once again on the gray area between science and human feelings. When Marie visits Paris, still processing her father’s death and her lover’s departure, she meets the warm, down-to-earth Pi (Laurent Stocker), whose quiet presence and offbeat interests help her to open up as a woman.

Everyone rows together on the technical side, from John Erik Kaada’s delightful score to cinematographer John Christian Rosenlund’s bright, clear images. The set design has a maniacal symmetry and precision until it reaches charming Paris, where the paint-chipped Eiffel Tower becomes an amusing plot point.

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Language(s):Norwegian, French, English
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Centres on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
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Grab your favorite bottle of rot gut and have a seat. It’s time for another Charles Bukowski adaptation and…as can be expected…this film is bound to give you a hangover.

Like the book, “”Factotum”” plays like a string of really shitty days as Henry Chinaski floats from one job to another, often in-between homes, even more often drunk off his ass, and always writing. We’re forced to walk alongside Chinaski in his miserable existence and it’s rarely a pretty picture. The constant drinking, the endless string of meaningless shit jobs, the brutal sex, the random acts of vomiting, the sorrow –- it’s enough to make one want to eat a burrito filled with razor blades. But that’s what fans of Bukowski have come to love about the man’s writing. And we know that as low down and depressing as these tales get, there’s quite often room to laugh. Filmmaker Bent Hamer captures this quality perfectly with his film. Bukowski fans have a reason to rejoice in his film.

But, Hamer is not alone in his success. Matt Dillon totally nails it as Chinaski, Charles Bukowski’s literary alias. Unlike Mickey Rourke who portrayed, well, a drunken Mickey Rourke in “”Barfly,”” Dillon becomes Bukowski/Chinaski, flawlessly capturing the writer’s mannerisms with his lumbering performance. He even gets his speech pattern down, but just the right amount so that he doesn’t wind up sounding like Snaggle Puss. You still hear Matt Dillon, but he has that Bukowski way of calling someone a “”filthy whore”” that will please fans everywhere. Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei also turn in amazing performances as a couple of Chinaski’s fluffies.

Bukowski had a bunch of none too kind things to say about ““Barfly”” upon its release in the 80s, but, with “”Factotum,”” he’d do plenty of bitching and moaning as well, but deep down, Hank would approve.
Eric Campos, Film Threat, 29th January, 2006

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