Joachim Calmeyer,
Tomas Norström,
Bjørn Floberg,
Reine Brynolfsson,
Sverre Anker Ousdal
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Director Bent Hamer's comedy drama Salmer Fra Kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories) is based on the real-life social experiments conducted in Sweden during the 1950s. In the years following WWII, a research ins... read more
DVD Release Date: December 14, 2004
Stats: 307 reviews
One of the more interesting and charming films I've seen. A lesson of friendship, communication, and the need for human interaction. The movie centers around a research study focusing on the kitchen routines and habits of single men in early 1950's Norway. The researchers are sup... read more
A quirky comedy from Norway about the budding friendship between two men thrown together through a research project regarding the kitchen habits of single men. Slow but with loads of subtle humour. Charming and rather touching.
Foreign, Swedish. This is a very good movie! This movie is completely different from anything I have ever seen, but good! It's about a group of Swedish, kitchen gadget, census takers that have been sent to Norway to map a housewives kitchen travels for future product productio... read more
In Norway, one elderly man sits in a chair in the corner of another old man's kitchen, observing his moves so he can design kitchens more efficiently. The men are not supposed to interact, but they do. Different and charming.
not hilarious but funny, pleasing, and charming yes. sweet friendship. best part is when he ends up on the train tracks.
A thoroughly charming oddity. And, in the end, a moving one, too.
Kitchen Stories is so subtle that many viewers will not be aware that it's screamingly funny. Full Review
The droll humour, penned by Hamer with collaborator Jorgen Bergmark, works best at a non-verbal level, when the well-cast Isak and Folke are silently sizing each other up. Full Review
Don't expect a profound dish. Do prepare for a light meal with enough oddball humor to maintain involvement.
Rather than simply beating the dead horse of utopian socialist engineering plans, Kitchen Stories serves to champion human irrepressibility and unpredictability. Full Review
Might evaporate if it were any drier. But it is a comedy, and a pretty charming one at that. Full Review
If stoicism is your idea of killer Friday-night entertainment, you won't find many numbingly boring experiences to top this one. Full Review
The movie's gentle humor and offbeat whimsy prove that humanity trumps bureaucratic foolishness, in Norway or anywhere else. Full Review
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