This Norwegian-Icelandic production is a feast for the eye and the soul. Having thrown himself in front of a train, forty-year-old Andreas finds himself back in a strange, grey city without being able to remember how he got there. He finds a job and a girl friend, but after some time he feels there is something fishy. He plans his escape. The Bothersome Man is ultimately not about the strange, new environment, rather the film says something about our own world. We are all zombies, apathetic, resigned in our straitjacket,
charging around in a colourless nightmare with IKEA furnishings and fittings. The much-feared spiritual and intellectual void of the consumer society is omnipresent. Copies of the protagonist Andreas can be found all over the globe every morning in their multitudes in traffic jams, at bus stops and on platforms, contemplating the end of the day’s work. No serial murderer or man-eating monster from outer space can beat that spectre. Norwegian spoken, English subtitles --
