Scanoramos klasika

Music for Weddings and Funerals

1 hr. 35 min. | Drama | N/A

The popular writer Sarah, who has lost her only child, lives alone in a house by the sea. The search for peace and alienation seems to be entirely in keeping with its Nordic way. But the strangest thing is that it has the opposite effect - Sarah suddenly longs to be among the people who can brighten her loneliness. She rents a room to a Serbian musician, Bogdan, a very volatile and distracted man with whom the gypsy orchestra regularly travels. Suddenly Sarah is called by her ex-husband, a famous architect. Since then, events have rapidly changed each other, ending a radical atomic nucleus. Despite unpredictable and sometimes unpleasant events, a joyous mood sounds in the finale of the film and chaotic love wins.

Serious human problems are depicted in this film unexpectedly, ironically and with humor, as is typical of the works of Almodovar and Kieślowski, who inspired the director.

Unni Straume

Unni Straume

Unni Straume (g. 1955), baigusi Voldos kino mokyklą (1978), kelerius metus kūrė dokumentinius filmus, dalyvavo daugelyje tarptautinių trumpametražių filmų festivalių. Jos trumpametražis filmas „Traukinio katastrofa“ („Derailment“) 1993 m. rodytas Kanuose. 1990 m. Unni Straume sukūrė pirmąjį nespalvotą vaidybinį filmą „Nepažįstamajam“ („Til en ukjent“), o antrasis jos filmas „Svajonių žaidimas“ („Drømspel“, 1994) buvo atrinktas Kanų festivalio „Tikro žvilgsnio“ sekcijai. 1998 m. pasirodė jos trečiasis filmas „Trano metodas“ („Thranes Methode“).
Languages
Norwegian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Musikk for bryllup og begravelser
Produced
2002: Norway, Sweden

Film information

Director
Unni Straume
Screenplay
Unni Straume
Music
Goran Bregovic
Cinematography
Harald Gunnar Paalgard
Cast
Lena Endre, Bjørn Floberg, Rebecka Hemse, Petronella Barker
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