Norwegian cinema has a knack for extremes, from the gleeful splatter of Dead Snow to the quiet emotional precision of Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World. That range, genre mayhem alongside intimate character study, gives Norwegian film a restless, hard-to-pin-down quality that rewards attention. Have a browse through Macca's reviews below.
Country Norway
Some short films set themselves a question so large that you almost feel the running time straining against it, and Stolen Memories, Anders Davidsen's Norwegian short film, is one of those. I caught it through the BFI London Film Festival, and while I admired its restraint and its
Rating: 4.0★
Fairy tales have always had a cruel streak. Not the Disney kind, with the swelling strings and the guaranteed happy ending, but the older kind, the kind where girls slice off their own toes to fit a glass slipper and pigeons peck out the eyes of the wicked. The Ugly
Rating: 4.0★
Some films don't just stay with you. They haunt you. Jasmila Žbanić's Quo Vadis, Aida? is one of those films. From its opening scenes, you feel the dread settling in, and it never, ever lifts. This is one of the most gut-wrenching viewing experiences I&
Rating: 4.0★
What does it do to a person, being told before you can even speak that your death is already written? That question sits at the heart of Amjad Abu Alala's Sudanese debut, and it never lets go. From the moment a Sufi sheikh delivers his prophecy over a
Genre Horror
★★½ — Dead Snow (2009)
Genre Drama
★½ — The Family (2017)
Genre Documentary
★★★½ — No Other Land (2024)
Genre Drama
★★★★ — The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Genre Drama
★★ — One Love (2003)
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