Archive of films Hawaii, Oslo / Hawaii, Oslo
Norway
2004, 125 min
Section:
Nature and Landscape in Norwegian Cinema
Year: 2005
People’s lives are endlessly dramatic and, at the same time, surprisingly interlinked; it’s enough to take a single day in Oslo and see what happens behind the facades of houses and on the streets.
Synopsis
The leitmotif of the film is the changing patterns of a kaleidoscope which both separate and join five stories, set during a single summer’s day in Oslo. These, too, unexpectedly change and interweave; in one episode, certain relationships and groupings are formed, only to immediately disintegrate and be transformed in the next. In its ingenious jigsaw-like character, the film is reminiscent of 21 Grams by director Alejandro Iñárritu. Here, too, are people who had never met before, who, though intersecting several times, would just pass in the street anonymously. We also encounter woeful misfortunes, characters cave in under their weight, they make fatal mistakes, they don’t understand others or even themselves, they betray each other and hurt themselves. Yet, at the same time, each of them tastes the bitterness of loneliness and desires to be loved. Vidar is some kind of new-age guardian angel, a nurse from a psychiatric hospital; in the end, it looks as if he has watched over everyone else, forgetting himself....
About the director
Erik Poppe (b. 1960, Oslo) grew up in Norway and Portugal. In Oslo he studied photography and, during the 1980s, worked as a photographer for Reuters and Norwegian newspapers. In 1987-91 he studied film photography at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. He then made a series of successful shorts, over 100 commercials and around 20 music videos. At home he won a prize for the TV series “Fire Brigade” (“Brigaden” , 2001-2002). His debut feature was the film Bunch of Five (Schpaaa, 1998) about a gang of juvenile delinquents. The film Hawaii, Oslo (2004) is his second feature film.
Contacts
Norwegian Film Institute
Box 482 Sentrum, 0105, Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 224 745 00
Fax: +47 224 745 97
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.nfi.no
TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 368 687 88
Fax: +45 367 744 48
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.trustnordisk.com
About the film
Color, 35 mm
Section: | Nature and Landscape in Norwegian Cinema |
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Director: | Erik Poppe |
Screenplay: | Harald Rosenløw Eeg |
Dir. of Photography: | Ulf Brantås |
Music: | John Erik Kaada, Bugge Wesseltoft |
Editor: | Einar Egeland |
Producer: | Finn Gjerdrum |
Production: | Paradox Produksjon AS |
Cast: | Trond Espen Seim, Jan Gunnar Røise, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Aksel Hennie, Petronella Barker, Robert Skjærstad, Benjamin Røsler |
Contact: | Norwegian Film Institute , TrustNordisk |
www: | www.hawaiioslo.no |
Guests
Astri Blindheim
Film Institution Rep.
Jan Erik Holst
Film Institution Rep.
Vigdis Lian
Stine Oppegaard
Film Institution Rep.
Tine Klint
Sales Agent
Aksel Hennie
Actor / Film Director