| Pal Stokka,
Odd Magnus Williamson, Espel Klouman-Hoiner, Henrik Mestad, Christian
Rubeck, Anders Danielsen Lie, Rebekka Karijord, Henrik Elvestad,
Viktoria Winge
Norwegian comedy drama that explores
the friendship between two aspiring writers and their struggles
with rejection, success, fame, relationships, writer's block, and
clinical depression. Mixing wry voice-over narration with wish-fulfillment
fantasy montage, the film follows punk rockers Phillip (Anders Danielsen
Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman-Hoiner) as they decide to submit their
respective manuscripts to local book publishers. Erik is less confident
of his literary abililities, while Philip is, at least on the surface,
more confident in his and Erik's work. Erik's suspicions are confirmed,
however, when the publisher rejects his manuscript and accepts Phillip's
novel. Erik questions whether he should give up and find another
profession and then Phillip has a psychotic episode... |