Aberdeen
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 23, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lena Headey & Stellan Skarsgård | |
Performer: | Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling & Jason Hetherington | |
Directed by | Hans Petter Moland | |
Screenwriting by | Lars Bill Lundholm & Hans Petter Moland | |
Composition by | Zbigniew Preisner | |
Produced by | Tom Remlov & Petter J. Borgli | |
Director of Photography: | Philip Øgaard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
The movie is to be admired for refusing to romanticize alcoholism and for finding, in its bleak story, much humor and emotion.
Full Review
EricDSnider.com
...[A] small, beautifully acted film....The perfectly meshed lead performances evoke an intimacy that makes you squirm...
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Clean and transparent, with no movie director tricks.
Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance.
Full Review
Slant Magazine
A gripping film about the tattered ties of familial love that matter even to ferociously wayward and addicted individuals.
Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
...[Skarsgard's] portrait of a trembling alcoholic's shameful desperation is a disquieting testament to the demon in the bottle...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
[A] frank father-daughter drama.
Full Review
Mr. Showbiz
Product Description:
Writer-director Hans PetTer Molland (ZERO KELVIN) deftly combines two traditional cinematic genres--the road movie and the dysfunctional family drama--to create a moving character study that is entirely his own. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is a successful, hard-edged career woman living in London. Days after receiving a promotion, she is asked by her mother, Helen (Charlotte Rampling), to travel to Norway and retrieve her alcoholic father, Tomas (Stellan Skarsgaard), so that he can begin a rehabilitation program back in Aberdeen, Scotland. She skeptically agrees, knowing how difficult a task this will be. Unfortunately, it's worse than even Kaisa could have imagined, for Tomas's drunkenness prevents the two from stepping on board an airplane, forcing them to make the trek in an automobile. Along the way, they clash bitterly, nagging one another. But they find a guardian angel in Clive (Ian Hart), a kindhearted truck driver who takes a liking to Kaisa and keeps the pair on track. By the time they arrive in Aberdeen, they have discovered the real reason for Helen's request, which is more serious than they could have ever anticipated. Molland's visually striking, loosely autobiographical film features flawless performances from the four major players, including another tour-de-force from Skarsgaard.
Keywords:
Product Info
- UPC: 720229910095
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item