The Bothersome Man

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The Bothersome Man

2006,

1h 35m,

Comedy/

Mystery & Thriller/

Fantasy

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74%

19 Reviews

Tomatometer

82%

5,000+ Ratings

Popcornmeter

74%

Tomatometer

19 Reviews

82%

Popcornmeter

5,000+ Ratings

One morning, Andreas (Trond Fausa Aurvåg) wakes up in a strange apartment in a strange city and has no idea how he got there. His boss (Birgitte Larsen) gives him instructions for a job he doesn't remember having. He marries Anne Britt (Petronella Barker), an interior designer, and, almost without even realizing it, settles into a comfortable but predictable routine. Slowly, Andreas realizes that the city's clean, calm and complacent citizens are a front for something very sinister.

Critics Consensus

Bothersome Man is a surreal, comedic meditation, thoughtfully and skillfully made.

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Noel Murray

AV Club

Aug 25, 2007

B+

[A] pitch-black, bone-dry comedy.

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Aug 24, 2007

4/5

A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, The Bothersome Man unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.

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Rob Nelson

Village Voice

Aug 21, 2007

Director Jens Lien mostly favors the clean and bland, succumbing to much of the same pod-person impassivity that the movie purports to critique.

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Chris Hewitt

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Sep 21, 2007

3/4

Like the Swedish/Norwegian Kitchen Stories, it's a thoughtful Scandinavian film with a bent sense of humor.

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Marc Mohan

Oregonian

Sep 21, 2007

A-

Is it a religious allegory? Political statement? Horror film? Perhaps all three, perhaps none.

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Eric Monder

Film Journal International

Sep 6, 2007

If only all the production elements added up to great movie. Instead, they seem like window dressing on a sill looking out to nowhere.

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Jun 5, 2018

Dynamic, interested and fresh. The movie will transport you to the plot of the situation of the character.

Kylo G

Apr 11, 2017

Very very weird creepy movie with a weird ending

Poe S

Jan 5, 2017

Fans of Dark City will like it

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Jens Lien

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Trond Fausa

Andreas

Petronella Barker

Anne Britt

Per Schaanning

Hugo

Birgitte Larsen

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Synopsis

One morning, Andreas (Trond Fausa Aurvåg) wakes up in a strange apartment in a strange city and has no idea how he got there. His boss (Birgitte Larsen) gives him instructions for a job he doesn't remember having. He marries Anne Britt (Petronella Barker), an interior designer, and, almost without even realizing it, settles into a comfortable but predictable routine. Slowly, Andreas realizes that the city's clean, calm and complacent citizens are a front for something very sinister.

Director: Jens Lien
Producer: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg, Julius Kemp, Ingvar Thordarson
Screenwriter: Per Schreiner
Production Co: Sandrew Metronome, Tordenfilm AS, The Icelandic Filmcompany
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy
Original Language: Norwegian
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 9, 2016
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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