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Twitch - A note to aspiring film makers: films populated entirely with horrible people are not generally a good time to sit through, no matter how well made they may be. Sure, there are exceptions, films with characters so bad that you get the vicarious thrill of living through them or films that pack a serious emotional catharsis generally, but for the most part it’s a pretty tough road to walk. Make those horrible characters all incredibly passive and self absorbed and you’ve got two big strikes against you.
And, with that, welcome to Cold Lunch, the debut feature from Norway’s Eva Sorhaug with a stellar cast of Norway’s best and brightest – including the first major screen role for Uno and Hawaii, Oslo star Aksel Hennie in a few years – playing horribly self absorbed people who just generally can’t seem to be bothered to make their lives – or anyone else’s, for that matter – any better.
Cold Lunch is an ensemble picture in the truest sense, a film that cuts between the stories of three primary protagonists linked by the fact that they live in the same neighborhood. There is Christer (Hennie), the vain college drop out about to be thrown out of his apartment for not paying his rent. There is Heidi, the beautiful young mother trapped in an abusive and horribly co-dependent relationship with her demanding, neglectful husband. And there is Leni, the socially reclusive young girl who may or may not have some sort of mental illness who is forced to make her way out into the big, bad world for the first time when tragedy strikes… [Full Story]
