Aberdeen (2000)

Today I (Emelie) watched a rather odd movie,

Imagine Lena Heady with her british accent, a swedish father…and the movie is set in Norway and Scottland. Yes there you have Aberdeen.

Kaisa (Lena Heady) is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad (Stellan Skarsgård) whom she hasn't seen in years. The impatient Kaisa reluctantly agrees. The story is a ruse: mom is dying and wants her ex and her daughter together again. The trip gets complicated (dad is too drunk to fly and the hot-tempered Kaisa gets them banned from the airline): they go by ferry then car, needing a great deal of help along the way from a sweet lorry driver named Clive. The story is about then trying to reach Aberdeen before mom's death.

The whole movies has a dark shade over it, that darkness we’re so used to in scandinavia. It fits the mood perfectly. Both Lena and Stellan show off their acting talents, their chemstry together is impecable.
I don’t watch these kinds of movies often but this one really moved me. It felt so honest and bare, it was as if you’re watching real life.

All in all I would give this a 5/10, I won't buy it but it was fun to watch.

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- Emelie, over and out.