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Kitchen Stories(Salmer fra kjøkkenet)

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Norway, Sweden · 2003
Rated PG · 1h 35m
Director Bent Hamer
Starring Joachim Calmeyer, Tomas Norström, Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson
Genre Drama, Comedy

Scandinavian researcher's observe the emergence of the modern housewife in the 1950s and plan to revolutionize the home kitchen. For the project, a Swedish scientist observes a Norwegian man's kitchen habits, but worries he may be shedding his objectivity as a kinship between the two men develops.

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80

Film Threat by

Like all good films, it raises these types of questions, answering some, and leaving some for you to answer yourself.

70

Variety by David Rooney

The film appears consistently poised to go deeper but instead hangs back, making it less substantial than it might have been. Yet the sweet-natured story's gentle humor and poignancy should draw appreciative audiences.

60

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Slight but sardonic, Norwegian director Bent Hamer's deadpan Kitchen Stories makes a taciturn comedy of nothingness out of color-coordinated '50s coziness and Scandinavian social planning.

80

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

In the wonderfully droll Kitchen Stories, Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer takes an already inspired premise and weaves it into a spry absurdist comedy that also manages to find some considerable warmth.

70

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Seems too subtle at times and too obvious at others, but Hamer strings together pieces of conversation and layers of voyeurism (everybody in the movie is watching somebody) into a moving study of the perils of presumption.

70

Time by Richard Schickel

What a pleasure it is not to be hectored by a director as we laugh our own little laughs, watching a profound story unfold.

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