Aberdeen

 

Aberdeen 2000

• Director: Hans Petter Moland and Tony Spataro
• Seen by Hans Petter Moland – Ut og stjaele hester
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Stellan Skarsgård –  Ut og staele hester, Mamma Mia 1&2, Melancholia, Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur, Dogville, The Glass House, Dancer in the Dark, Amistad, Good Will Hunting, Breaking the Waves, Hamlet, Den enfaldige mördaren
• Lena Headey – Game of Thrones, Fighting with My Family, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Brothers Grimm, The Remains of the Day, Waterland
• Ian Hart– Escape from Pretoria, Mary Queen of Scots, Breakfast on Pluto, Finding Neverland, Harry Potter, Born Romantic, Liam, Longitude, The Butcher Boy, Michael Collins, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
• Charlotte Rampling - Dune, Melancholia, Never Let Me Go, Life During Wartime, Lemming, A Hard Day’s Night
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 10 August 2023      

       Helen (Rampling) is dying of cancer. She induces her tough daughter, coke-snorting, partying lawyer Kaisa (Headey) to go to Norway and fetch her father Tomas (Skarsgård), a drunk who Kaisa hates and hasn’t seen for years. It is not a happy reunion and the journey from Oslo to Aberdeen is a road trip in hell with flat tires, drunken vomiting, long hours of ferry and car, encounters with more or less helpful and/or malicious strangers - long enough for memories, old conflicts, old hurts and resentments to surface, entangling both Kaisa and Tomas more than ever in their love/hate relationship.

       It’s a heart-breaking, exceptionally well-acted gem. 

4 ½ * of 5