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Aberdeen (2000 film)

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Aberdeen
Swedish DVD cover
Directed byHans Petter Moland
Written byKristin Amundsen
Lars Bill Lundholm
Produced byPetter J. Borgli
Tom Remlov
StarringStellan Skarsgård
Lena Headey
Charlotte Rampling
CinematographyPhilip Øgaard
Edited bySophie Hesselberg
Music byZbigniew Preisner
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri (SF) AB (Sweden)
First Run Features (US)
Release date
  • 8 September 2000 (2000-09-08) (Norway)
Running time
Norway: 113 minutes
US: 106 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Norway
Sweden
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6,500,000

Aberdeen is a 2000 Norwegian-British drama film directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling.

Synopsis

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Lawyer Kaisa Heller, just promoted, has no apparent emotional attachments, preferring nameless encounters with men. She is surprised to receive a call from Helen, her dying mother, with a final request to bring Kaisa's estranged father Tomas to see her at the hospital. The film is a bit of a road movie with encounters along the way; some are confrontational, such as boozing louts who harass her father or angry stewardesses issuing ultimatums, while some are romantic, such as truck driver Clive whom Kaisa attempts to use, but instead finds herself attached to. What started as an unavoidable chore, perhaps the last she will have never been able to dodge, becomes a new starting point in her life.

Cast

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Critical response

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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 87%, with the site's consensus reading: "Though the characters are difficult to watch at times, Aberdeen burns with ferocious honesty and strong performances."[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Aberdeen (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
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