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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”
Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading
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Tagged iran, kurdish-comedy, kurdistan, movie-review, norway, norwegian-film, peshmarga, writing
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Netflixable? A Norwegian remake follows a drunken, aimless skier on “The Wrong Track”
One of the more disillusioning aspects of the Golden Age of Content is the way Netflix repurposes intellectual property and remakes films for different markets. Spanish films get almost pointless Mexican or Argentine remakes, and vice versa. And it all … Continue reading
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Tagged birkebeinerrennet, movie-review, movies, netflix, norwegian-film
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Movie Review: Teachers Accuse, Debate and Judge a Mother and her Son named “Armand”
Something that happened at school is debated and “measures” are weighed and furiously argued and even experienced through interpretive dance in the challenging but slow feature filmmaking debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of the great actress Liv Ullmann. … Continue reading
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Tagged armand, drama, film, movie-review, norwegian-film, renate-reinsve, Reviews
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