Rotten
This absurdist black comedy from Norway is unlike any other movie you'll see this year, but as allegory, it's a bit too literal-minded.
Joshua Land, Time Out New York
The Bothersome Man
2006 · 1h 30m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Jens Lien
Overview
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This is a bizarre social satire that mixes the mild-mannered humor of Jacques Tati with stunningly gory slapstick.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
[A] pitch-black, bone-dry comedy.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fresh
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.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Director Jens Lien mostly favors the clean and bland, succumbing to much of the same pod-person impassivity that the movie purports to critique.
Rob Nelson, Village Voice
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