Friday 5 November 2010

Voksne Mennesker (Dark Horse)

This quirky 2005 film, from the director (Dagur Kari) of the alright 'Noi The Albino', is a decent distraction.
It is filmed in a weird black and white, grainy style, giving it the feeling of a real low budget, indie, small enterprise, which it of course is. The shots aren't particularly amazing, but the general drained out look, as a visual effect,just about works.
This is a film about messing about, but it perhaps doesn't quite have the cojones to follow this through. It's not a pure portrait of slackerdom, there's a bit too much of a plot in it for that. This allows it a nice emotional moment at the end (the colour move), but the mediation is perhaps not quite worth that.
This film works better as a study of living in the present, with silliness. This could make it interesting and subjective study, though it perhaps is too keen to go for knockabout humour at times, which can dull the effect.
Overall? Diverting, but not much more.

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