Handle with Care (2017) Hjertestart
Handle with Care (2017)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x552 | x264 @ 1689 Kbps | 98 min | 1,47 Gb
Audio: Norsk AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Norsk
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 720x552 | x264 @ 1689 Kbps | 98 min | 1,47 Gb
Audio: Norsk AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Norsk
Genre: Drama
Director: Arild Andresen
Writers: Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, Arild Andresen
Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Marlon Moreno, Kristoffer Bech
After his wife's death, offshore oil worker Kjetil is having a hard time relating to his adopted son Daniel. In an act of desperation, he brings Daniel along to Colombia to search for the boy's biological mother.
… Despite the heavy theme, Handle With Care is a carefully intelligent film. Director Arild Andreson is not a stranger to complex family dramas; his previous work The Orheim Company also tackles a struggling father/son bond. But while that film is set within the confines of a house, Handle With Care is internationally set, with much of the film taking place on location in Colombia. While the film wants to prove that Daniel being adopted to Norway perhaps saved him from a troubled life, the film doesn’t show Colombia in a negative light. It’s a vibrant, energetic, and friendly city almost shot in a way to provide a suitable life to Daniel’s grey, melancholic and dull life in Stavanger. The core of this film is the relationship between the two leading actors. Kristoffer Joner is one of Norway’s most famous actors, and in this film, he doesn’t feel fitting as a fatherly character, though perhaps that’s the point. The young boy, Kristoffer Bech, is incredible and his facial expressions will pull at your heart strings. It’s emotionally heavy but softly told. It will leave you thinking, and that proves that Andreson is a masterful director.
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