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Kitchen Stories
Directed by
Bent Hamer
PG
2003
1h 35m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.3
90%
86%
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A scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.
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Cast of Kitchen Stories
Joachim Calmeyer
Isak Bjørvik
Tomas Norström
Folke Nilsson
Bjørn Floberg
Grant
Reine Brynolfsson
Malmberg
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Dr. Jack Zac. Benjaminsen
Gard B. Eidsvold
Bakkemann
Lennart Jähkel
Green
Leif Andrée
Dr. Ljungberg
Bjørn Jenseg
Vaktmester
Jan Gunnar Røise
Vaktmesterassistent
Trond Brænne
Ordfører
Bent Hamer
Director / Writer / Producer
Jörgen Bergmark
Writer / Producer
Kitchen Stories Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
A prime piece of comic anthropology.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A thoroughly charming oddity. And, in the end, a moving one, too.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
An enjoyable study of ridiculous regimentation and a sure balm to anyone who has overdosed on the efficient designs at Ikea.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Kitchen Stories is so subtle that many viewers will not be aware that it's screamingly funny.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Might evaporate if it were any drier. But it is a comedy, and a pretty charming one at that.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie's gentle humor and offbeat whimsy prove that humanity trumps bureaucratic foolishness, in Norway or anywhere else.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Though there's a melancholy mood to much of the film, it leaves an audience happy -- as if we, like Folke and Isak, have made a new friend.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. Hamer never goes for belly laughs, preferring instead the smiles of quiet recognition from viewers who appreciate a change of pace from all the slobbering in recent movies.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The two central actors, Joachim Calmeyer (Isak) and Tomas Norström (Folke), are instances of how to be interesting without being in the least charismatic.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Give it time, and its wry, absurdist comedy begins to crackle with essential, universal truths.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
An enjoyable movie.
Premiere Magazine
Peter Debruge
Folke and Isak's friendship is a beautiful thing, unexpected but inevitable, and the movie does a delightful job of shaping it.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Pays off eventually with a lovely story of friendship between two lonely men.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
It's mostly a well-acted, expertly directed comedy with characters and situations of truly universal appeal.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Before it settles down into a two-man character study, Kitchen offers a succession of quietly uproarious sight gags.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
The Norwegian writer and director Bent Hamer's wry, uninflected deadpan social comedy points as straight and true as a compass fixed on magnetic north.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
There's nothing casual about the way this film has been put together, yet that painstaking care leads to laughter that is completely unrestrained.
Newsday
John Anderson
An extended ethnic joke, Kitchen Stories moves with a glacial indifference to conventional comedic timing. But perhaps that's what makes it so funny and so emotionally precise.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The icy whimsy of Kitchen Stories is certainly well sustained, but you don't laugh at the movie so much as wait for the joke to thaw.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
What a pleasure it is not to be hectored by a director as we laugh our own little laughs, watching a profound story unfold.
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