Aberdeen Reviews
Before I watched this movie, I had no clue what this movie would be. And now after seeing it I'm simply not a fan. It's a simple movie on paper but with a relationship with the main character from game of thrones and her dad played by Stellan skarsgard. This movie is very high anxiety and uncomfortable at times. It's pretty hard to predict what's going to happen in this movie but for me the pace is a snails pace. That's my big problem. I like the idea of the movie and the actors are fantastic but maybe the editing is the problem or the script writing. But in the end this is also a forgettable movie that I will forget about in a day or two. But at least the poster is iconically cool.
Before I watched this movie, I had no clue what this movie would be. And now after seeing it I'm simply not a fan. It's a simple movie on paper but with a relationship with the main character from game of thrones and her dad played by Stellan skarsgard. This movie is very high anxiety and uncomfortable at times. It's pretty hard to predict what's going to happen in this movie but for me the pace is a snails pace. That's my big problem. I like the idea of the movie and the actors are fantastic but maybe the editing is the problem or the script writing. But in the end this is also a forgettable movie that I will forget about in a day or two.
Lawyer Kaisa Heller (Lena Headey), just promoted, has no apparent emotional attachments, preferring nameless encounters with men. She is surprised to receive a call from Helen (Charlotte Rampling), her dying mother, with a final request to bring Kaisa's estranged father Tomas (Stellan Skarsgård) to see her at the hospital. The film is a bit of a road movie with encounters along the way, some confrontational, such as boozing louts who harass her father or angry stewardesses issuing ultimatums, while some are romantic, such as truck driver Clive (Ian Hart) 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... Hans Petter Molands´s family drama moves you in many ways and we get a great cast. A young, lovely and great Lena Headey, the always solid Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgård plus Ian Hart. I saw "Aberdeen" when it came out, but I can´t remember my opinion back in 2000. But, re-seeing it now was very satisfying. I needed this film right now in my life as I encountered similarities to this story in my own life. And we get a excellent soundtrack from Zbigniew Preisner with great vocals from Stina Nordenstam in the closing song.
Appalling student film script, plotting and characterisation that shows that good acting is entirely dependent on good writing and direction, absent from this film. Random nudity, absurd storyline jumps and non-sequiturs, and inconsistent behaviour from the characters adds up to a boring whole.
Good acting, writing. Pretty depressing. Both are pretty unlikable, but are interesting enough characters to get past it.
'Aberdeen' may give us a few questions and the script can be unsure of itself a few times. But the performances by Stellan Skarsgard and Lena Headey are good with this one.
This was a good film about a grown up daughter and her alcoholic father as they try to come together, i really loved this film, the characters were great and the story was also good this is one of the best daughter/father films ive ever seen.
A Frank Father- Daughter drama. well acted but i hated the storyline it was pointless, strange and just tidious to watch after a while! You know how the story goes... An addicte will never change his/her stripes, BUT people around them take the liberty of trying to "help". Theres no solution or a simple fix. I can personally relate and sympathize with Kaisa. Who I believe should have just walked away while she still had the chance.
Father and daughter switch roles and then spend the rest of the movie getting back to their intended roles. One viewer called it "weird"; which is an apt description of the dysfunctional nature of this family and the trip that ultimately helps them work things out.
This movie pleasantly surprised me, I expect this movie to be one way and went in a completely different direction, every time I assumed what was coming next it would change direction again ever so slightly, which is a good thing. While the film does get slow at times it's worth watch, especially for the hot Lena Headley.
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An alcoholic and his estranged, cokehead daughter attempt to complete a road trip to see the family's matriarch on her deathbed in this raw European counterpart to LEAVING LAS VEGAS. Bleak and depressing, but genuinely moving and astonishingly well-acted.
Another gripping portrayal of dysfunction in a family. As with Blue Valentine, questions about paternity loom large. Stellan Skarsgard seems to specialise in alcoholic oil rig roughnecks - last spotted in 'Breaking the Waves'. He plays them very convincingly. Not a film for the squeamish - at least Eleanor didn't stop the movie this time!
the cast is top notch and there's enough serious emotional revelations to raise the film above drek, but that doesn't give enough justification for the harsh and unpleasant experience of watching these two addicts ruin their lives. And besides that, the ugly, nightmarish situations they face didn't reflect any kind of realistic turn of events that i expect in a character study, which makes it all cheap and manipulative. I expected alot more
- FILMS: 3 in 1 CRAP day - THEME: Father/daughter (dsy)functional relationships (just happened?) - Fictional 2; Actual 1 Music is good in this one and ABERDEEN is excellent cinema. Lena Hedley is tour de force. NETFLIX saved the day today
an initially slow-moving, but well-crafted portrayal of a dysfunctional family, and the troubles addictions bring.
a grippingly sensitive movie held together by Skargard and Headey that afforded a glimpse of clarity into a family shredded by a lie and alcoholism.