This cool, stylish, and surreal film finds Andreas in a strange city, with no idea how he arrived there. Nevertheless, things soon fall into place--perhaps a little too easily. Andreas is given a job, an apartment, and a wife. But something is amiss in this unblemished and ordered metropolis. And he soon learns escape is impossible.
Theatrical Release: August 24, 2007
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - Norwegian
Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
Biographies
Bonus Short - 1. TRUE STORY - Stephanie Via
Director of Photography
John Christian Rosenlund: DP for Factotum
Review 1:
"[I]t's a genuinely funny film, occasionally laugh-out-loud and slapstick, but more often mining the same surreally absurd strain...as fellow Scandinavian Roy Andersson."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.52 06/01/2007
Review 2:
"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....Quiet desperation has never looked so gorgeous."
Source: New York Times
p.E8 08/24/2007