Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Cadette This is very entertaining and interesting snap shot from a point in time when young people in the north were looking east to find their political identity. It is a story about the difficulties you come across when trying to follow your ideals and the frustration you can feel if the ones close to you do not always share your dream. It's about intellectual power, love and lust, masters and slaves and all the different roles you acquire when you are part of a group of people trying to change the world. This film also describes some of the hardships you face if you dare try to change your social class. Would you throw away all your possessions to join the movement and are you brave enough to face alienation in order to be able to follow your dreams?

nilzz The name of the party the main characters are involved in tells its own tale: AKP-ml, the Workers Communist Party - the marxist-leninists.... Actually, this film is about the ordinary peoples involvement in the extreme leftist movement in Norway, and deals with the passion, absurdity and tragedy of this period. The film is much less apologetic than the book, and it manages to portray the characters rather truthfully and not as a parody of the times. Compared to other parts of the world the 70's were more politicized, uncompromising and polarized in Norway, something that the movie reflects as it describes the lives of the party cadres. Some nice footage and good acting makes this film well worth for everybody interested in learning about the politically radical way the societal upheavals of the 60's and the 70's influenced a small country "on top of the world".

Eplebit This movie is quite good, but not quite as good as it could and should have been. The main problem is that AKP-ML only looks like some small comical sect with less than a dozen members. From what I've heard from people that lived in this period, they were actually quite big and made a huge impact on several parts of society, especially for students. I wish this could have been better shown in the movie.Other than that, there's a lot of good stuff here. While some things are a bit over the top, the story is actually pretty good and the acting is good as well, although seeing Joner in about every Norwegian movie is starting to feel a bit strange. But being the best actor of them all, I guess you can live with that.

bobbyperu-4 Norways best director (Hans Petter Moland) teams up with the beautiful and talented Ane Dahl Torp and Kristoffer Joner, one of very few believable film actors in this country. Based on the book by Dag Solstad, a genial temporary Norwegian author, "Pedersen" should be a real treat. But it isn't. The movie is so awful its hard to believe the images you see on the screen. It's like a joke, only it isn't. In short the story follows some extraordinary horny Norwegian working-class people. Their ambition is a armed revolution against "the capitalistic pigs". They have sex and sing, sing and have sex. And neither is amusing or remotely interesting to watch. I just got embarrassed and even more so as "the movie" progressed.Norwegian critics have given the movie rave reviews, but do not trust them. This movie is crap and it's a damn shame that we have wasted taxpayers money on this awful mess.Don't see it - life is way too short.