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Title: Oslo, 31. august (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Anders Danielsen Lie | ... | Anders | |
| Malin Crépin | ... | Malin | |
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Aksel Thanke | ... | Terapeut (as Aksel M. Thanke) |
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Hans Olav Brenner | ... | Thomas |
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Ingrid Olava | ... | Rebekka |
| Øystein Røger | ... | David | |
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Tone Beate Mostraum | ... | Tove (as Tone B. Mostraum) |
| Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal | ... | Mirjam | |
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Petter Width Kristiansen | ... | Petter |
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Emil Lund | ... | Calle |
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Johanne Kjellevik Ledang | ... | Johanne |
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Renate Reinsve | ... | Renate |
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Andreas Braaten | ... | Karsten |
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Anders Borchgrevink | ... | Øystein |
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Lennart Anker | ... | Terapigruppen |
Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On 30 August, he is given a day's leave to attend a job interview in the city center. After visiting his friend Thomas, he proceeds to his appointment. In the interview, he admits to being a drug addict and storms out. He then wanders the streets of Oslo for the rest of the day and night, meeting, and sometimes confronting, people from his past. The film ends the next day, 31 August. Focusing on the decisions Anders has made with his time off. Written by ikissmymom
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Oslo, October 31st (2011)
A highly realistic, intimate view of a young man who has completed a drug abuse program and is trying to rejoin his life. It's a rough ride, sometimes boring, sometimes raw, but it's the real thing, and if you have an interest in this kind of common problem without watching a documentary, this is the movie.
Though set in Oslo, there is a universal quality to all of this. Yes, the leading man, Anders, has the usual problem getting jobs. But that's just the beginning. It's about friends who want to help and friends who expect him to help them be wild. It's about old girlfriends, new girlfriends, parties where you can't drink, family that wasn't adequate, and on and on.
And the temptation of real drugs, beyond drink.
It's odd to realize, but I think the bottom line is that most young people live in a culture that's on the edge, on purpose and for good reason. And there is a percentage of people who can't handle that, who need to go over the edge, and will always go over the edge. Some of those people understand it early and save themselves, others never can. And life is a series of crises.
This isn't a feel good movie about a man who succeeds (I'm not saying here if he succeeds or not—just that it's not some sunny happiness after a round with the devil). This is about what it might be like to be in the shoes of Anders, or anyone like him, and how almost impossible it is to rise up. And his friends and family are partly to blame, sad to admit.
The final few minutes of the film are poetic—elegiac might be a better word—and the opening to the film is similarly daring and edgy. It's odd and perhaps too bad the the middle—the bulk of it—is more prosaic. It's good, it's really good, but without the poetry we are sure to sink into empathy and sadness, watching what is surely so believable it is, somewhere, all too real.