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Scandiland:
A Season of Scandinavian and Nordic Cinema

Brought you by Exeter Phoenix. Supported by Film Hub South West and West Midlands, part of the BFI Audience network.

Meal Deal available with this film:
ENJOY A NORDIC SEAFOOD TASTING PLATTER FOR JUST £7 WHEN BOUGHT WITH A FILM TICKET. SERVED AT 7.30PM, BETWEEN THE FILM SCREENINGS.

To book call 01392 667080 (must be booked at least 2 days before event, subject to availability. For terms and conditions, click here).

Norsk Komedie Double Bill:

Elling + Kitchen Stories

Norway produces some of the greatest visual storytellers. This evening will offer an insight in to Norway’s ability to develop convincing and unforgettable characters, uniquely hilarious scenarios and unexpected outcomes.

Elling (PG) – 6pm

Tickets to 6pm screening are £5.50, or see the whole Norsk Komedie Double Bill for £9 (to purchase double bill ticket, add 6pm and 8.15pm screening tickets to your basket and the difference will be deducted automatically).

Norway, 2001, 89 mins. Dir Petter Næss

This Oscar-nominated Norwegian comedy tells the story of two men and their release from a state home.

Until the death of his mother, Elling rarely left the apartment where they lived; Kjell has lived in institutions most of his life and is obsessed with sex, as any virgin in his 30s might be. Thanks to a new social program, the two roommates are given an apartment in Oslo and set the task to manage independent living.

At first simply answering the phone or buying groceries is a struggle, but as they taste freedom, their lives become filled with intrigue and adventure.

Elling is engaging, moving and funny and with superb acting is genuinely awkward and uncomfortable at times. Elling and Kjell’s difficulties in the world are treated with respect and realism, which makes their progress bracing and their success delightful. A must see.

Kitchen Stories (PG) – 8.15pm

Salmer fra kjøkkenet (original title)

Tickets to 8.15pm screening are £5.50, or see the whole Norsk Komedie Double Bill for £9 (to purchase double bill ticket, add 6pm and 8.15pm screening tickets to your basket and the difference will be deducted automatically).

Norway /Sweden, 2014, 95 mins. Dir Bent Hamer

A collective of scientific investigators descend on a small Norwegian community to study the activity of single males within the kitchen. Strictly ordered to remain seated on their strategically placed viewing platform the researchers are forbidden to engage with their subjects, only to observe them. However for one researcher all rules go down the kitchen plug hole as a an unlikely but profound friendship begins to grow between himself and his cantankerous subject.

‘Bent Hamer’s wry, uninflected deadpan social comedy points as straight and true as a compass fixed on magnetic north.’
THE NEW YORK TIMES

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX