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Junk Mail
*Premiere*
Winner, First Prize, International Critics' Week
Cannes Film Festival, 1997
"Excellent! A deft black comedy."
-- Los Angeles Times
Pal Sletaune sums up his surreal, grungy and hilarious debut feature: "Junk Mail is a black comedy about love, money that no one wants, cold canned spaghetti, karaoke, involuntary good deeds, rutting and the joy of being comatose..." Roy (Robert Skjaerstad, a jowly Tim Roth look-a-like) is a sad-sack postie who might just be the world's worst mailman -- ignored or loathed by his co-workers, he opens anything in his mailbag that looks like it might be fun to read, delivers only what he feels like and dumps the rest in a tunnel. One day Roy gains access to the apartment of the hearing-impaired woman he's admired from afar; soon he is mired in a crime/love story populated by grotesques... "Save for one priceless moment -- an indescribable karaoke rendition of "Born To Be Wild" -- the film sticks with low-key absurdism (the closest reference point, tonal and geographical is deadpan Finn Aki Kaurismaki)... No detail is inconsequential -- the film is as streamlined, incident-filled and hermetically plotted as a superior Seinfeld episode..." -- Village Voice. "An offbeat, blackly humorous love story with a grotesque edge, Junk Mail announces a quirky new talent in former photographer and commercials director Pal Sletaune..." -- Variety.
(Norway, 1997, subtitles, 85 min.)
Classification: TBA
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