Salmer fra kjøkkenet (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Bent Hamer

Escritores:

Jörgen Bergmark (writer)
Bent Hamer (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 enero 2003 (Norway)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Plot:

A scientific observer's job of observing an old cantakerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.

Plot Keywords:

Kitchen | Friendship | Norway | Chair | Observation

Premios:

8 wins & 6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Celebrates life and friendship

Reparto

Joachim Calmeyer	...	Isak Bjørvik
Tomas Norström	...	Folke Nilsson
Bjørn Floberg	...	Grant
Reine Brynolfsson	...	Malmberg
Sverre Anker Ousdal	...	Dr. Jack Zac. Benjaminsen
Leif Andrée	...	Dr. Ljungberg
Gard B. Eidsvold	...	Bakkerman (as Gard Eidsvold)
Lennart Jähkel	...	Green
Trond Brænne	...	Ordforer
Bjørn Jenseg	...	Vaktmester
Jan Gunnar Røise	...	Vaktmesterassistent
Karin Lunden	...	Svensk selskapsdame
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Päivi Laakso	...	Finsk selskapsdame

Dirigida por
Bent Hamer

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Jörgen Bergmark		writer
Bent Hamer		writer

Producida por
Jörgen Bergmark	....	producer
Arve Figenschow	....	line producer
Bent Hamer	....	producer

Música original por
Hans Mathisen

Fotografía por
Philip Øgaard

Montaje por
Pål Gengenbach

Casting
Mette Holme Nielsen
Betten Vaager

Diseño de producción por
Billy Johansson

Diseño de vestuario por
Karen Fabritius Gram

Departamento de maquillaje
Eros Codinas	....	hair stylist
Eva Rygh	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Nina B. Andersson	....	production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Binne Thoresen	....	assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Per Arild Amundsen	....	carpenter
Gudrun Johanna Benonysdottir	....	assistant decorator (as Gudrun Benonysdottir)
Paul André Fuller	....	assistant decorator
Lars Erik Gurholt	....	carpenter
Rolf Kise	....	carpenter
Anders Lunde	....	property master
Erik Magnussen	....	construction manager
Olivier Marcouiller	....	assistant decorator
Geir Opheim	....	carpenter
Karen Søndrol	....	assistant art director
Caroline Størmer	....	props
Jens Petter Svensrud	....	construction manager
Morten Swang	....	assistant property master
Pål Tohje	....	carpenter

Departamento de sonido
Per Carleson	....	sound
Petter Fladeby	....	sound re-recording mixer
Linda Forsén	....	sound
Lars Jameson	....	sound
Tomas Naug	....	boom operator
Willie Peterson-Berger	....	sound
Morten Solum	....	sound

Efectos especiales
Pål Morten Hverven	....	special effects

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Erik Aavatsmark	....	still photographer
Charles Curran	....	first assistant camera: second camera
Knut Haraldsen	....	gaffer
Ingeborg Klyve	....	first assistant camera
Hilde Malme	....	camera operator: second camera
Jens J. Patterson	....	assistant camera
Ståle Rue	....	electrician
Matthew R. Soria	....	assistant grip
Johan Wallin	....	grip

Departamento de vestuario
Ingvill Fjeldstad	....	seamstress
Kari Steihaug	....	assistant costumer

Departamento de Edición
Janne Karin Hansen	....	assistant editor
Bente Helle	....	negative cutter
Torulf Henriksen	....	on-line editor
Kirsti Marie Hougen	....	post-production coordinator
Andrzej Kiwala	....	color grader
Jan Erik Nielsen	....	color timer

Departamento de Música
Lars Petter Kristiansen	....	music recordist
Erik Valderhaug	....	music mixer

Otros miembros del equipo
Bjørn Bjølseth	....	production accountant
Teréz Hollo	....	production secretary
Aslaug Konradsdottir	....	script supervisor
Hanne Liseth	....	publicist
Kristian Mejdell Nissen	....	location manager
Eirik Ohna	....	location manager
Audun Skarbøvik	....	location scout
Pål Erik Solberg	....	production runner

Compañías Productores

• BOB Film Sweden AB
• Bulbul Films
• Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)

Distribuidores

• A-Film Distribution (2004) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Arsenal (2004) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Filmladen (2005) (Austria) (theatrical)
• Frenetic Films (2003-2004) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• IFC Films (2004) (USA) (subtitled)
• Lady Film (2003) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Les Films du Losange (France)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• MegaCom Film (MCF) (2004) (Yugoslavia) (all media)
• SPO (Japan) (theatrical)
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• United King Films (Israel)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (Switzerland) (DVD)

Otras Compañías

• Norsk Filmstudio  sound mixing
• Studio Lagnö  post-production sound

También conocida como:

Kitchen Stories (International: English title)
Psalmer från köket (Sweden)
Psalms from the Kitchen (literal English title)
Historias de cocina (Argentina) (festival title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild language.

Duración:

95 min | Argentina:96 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

País:

Norway | Sweden

Idioma:

Noruego | Sueco

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Zurich) | Hungary:14 | Australia:PG | Argentina:Atp | Germany:o.Al. | Norway:A | Philippines:G | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | USA:PG | Brazil:14 | Finland:S | Czech Republic:12

Compañía:

BOB Film Sweden AB

Trivialidades:

At the beginning of the film, Malmberg (a Swede) becomes ill after having to drive on the right side of the road in Norway. Today both countries drive on the right. In 1967, Sweden switched to the right because making two versions of cars like Volvos and Saabs for domestic and foreign sales was inefficient. Also, there are many unguarded, unmarked border crossings points (unlike the crossing in the film); people would not realize which country they were in and sometimes ended up driving on the wrong side.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofed in "Brødrene Dal og mysteriet med Karl XIIs gamasjer: (#1.1)" (????)

Banda de Sonido:

Visa Från Utanmyra

Celebrates life and friendship

As a result of a study in the 1950s in which efficiency experts at the Home Research Institute observed the kitchen habits of Swedish housewives to come up with a better workspace design, eighteen men are transported in caravans to farms in Norway to observe the cooking habits of Norwegian single men. Kitchen Stories, a quirky comedy co-written by Swedish director Bent Hamer and Norway's Jörgen Bergmark, depicts the relationship between two elderly single men, a relationship in which the observer ends up being the observed. The film is similar, in its deadpan humor and offbeat characters, to the work of Aki Kaurismäki, but without the Finnish director's overbearing self-consciousness.

The scientists wear white lab coats and carry clipboards, seemingly poised for an ET-like invasion. The observers, however, must live outside the homes of their subjects in small trailers and are not allowed to talk, drink, or otherwise interact with their subjects. Some, however, are not willing subjects. One of the scientists, Folke, a Swede (Tomas Norström), draws Isak (Joachim Calmeyer), an antisocial Norwegian farmer used to living in solitude. Isak at first refuses to let Folke into his house, resentful that the horse he was promised in return for his participation turned out to be a figurine. Folke, however, eventually gains access to the kitchen and sits every day perched in his high observation chair, recording Isak's every movement like the Lord High Executioner until Isak decides to take his hot plate up to his bedroom to frustrate his unwelcome guest.

The sly Isak drills a hole through the upstairs bedroom floor and now secretly watches Folke in the kitchen. When they start conversing, each man insists on speaking his own language (not shown by the subtitles) as if to doggedly maintain their separate identities. Gradually they become friends, breaking through the barriers in their life that have imposed a limiting solitude. They begin first by drinking coffee in the morning, sharing a bit of their background, and then celebrating Isak's birthday with cake and bourbon whiskey. Their interaction, of course, is against the rules of the study, and there are consequences for Folke. His life, however, acquires new meaning the more willing he is to take risks and share himself openly. Kitchen Stories is a small film, but one that is warmhearted and thoroughly enjoyable, a work that celebrates the small pleasures in just being alive without trying to be profound or seduce us with blatant emotional appeals.