Kitchen Stories
Bent Hamer
During the 1950s, during the post-war industrial boom, a group of observers from the Swedish Home Research Institute goes to a Norwegian village called Landstad, to study the routines of single men in their kitchens. The observers are not allowed to enter into any form verbal or physical relationship with their hosts. One observer, Folke, an earnest lowly employee is sent to Isak's kitchen. Isak is a single, slightly depressed farmer. A friendship is born between the two men.
With : Tomas Norström, Joachim Calmeyer, Bjrn Floberg
Screenplay : Jörgen Bergmark, Bent Hammer
Image : Philip Øgaard
Editing : Pål Gengenbach
Sound : Petter Fladeby
Costumes : Karen Fabritius Gram
Decors : Billy Johansson
Music : Hans Mathisen
Screenplay : Jörgen Bergmark, Bent Hammer
Image : Philip Øgaard
Editing : Pål Gengenbach
Sound : Petter Fladeby
Costumes : Karen Fabritius Gram
Decors : Billy Johansson
Music : Hans Mathisen
Production : BulBul Film AS, BOB Film Sweden AB
Distribution: Les Films du Losange
Distribution: Les Films du Losange
When making Kitchen Stories, which was presented at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, Bent Hamer wanted to show, humorously, what happens when there is an intrusion into an individual's private life: an inevitable process of socialisation. But "the film can also be seen as a positivist critique with references to contemporary reality shows" (Bent Hamer). A theme which was already explored inEggs, Hamer's first film, which was presented in Cannes in 1995 and which went on to win many awards. The idea behind this film came from when he read a Swedish survey in a 1950s magazine looking into housewives and their movements in the kitchen.