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With 10 million dollar budget and professional actors, this could have been a nice production. Without this, it's as good as it gets, and that is enough to get my attention. There is a lot of halfway amateur productions out there, but this one is apparently one, where everyone seems to give their best effort. The actors looks good on the screen, with nice camera-charisma, so to speak. Of course, there are many flaws, and lacks the tightness, and the experienced professional touch, but it does have a potential in every way that we need in Norwegian film-making.I like the dream sequences in particular. I want to see another!

This is the first Argento movie I've seen. I don't think it's gonna be the last, but my effort to get to see another movie by him, are weakened. The positive things about this movie is first of all the musical score. Without that, the movie would have plummeted to the ground. The acting is...how shall I put it, theatrical. Unfortunely enough to make me disinterested. But the killing scenes in the movie are well above average for the rest of it. The plot is not there. It's just a girl dancing ballet and everyone around her dies. My biggest problem with this movie that it is not scary. I didn't quite see the phenomenal editing or cinematography either. It was descent for a 77 standard, but today it's just not that eye-catching. Mostly it is a huge gasp. My girlfriend fall asleep after half an hour. And I was really thinking about sleeping half way through. Fortunately a new killing saved me from it, and the terrific musical score. And that is the two things that hold this movie together and make it an average experience.

I'm happy to finally see a well written and well directed Norwegian movie, that have lost all the "arch-norwgian lines and way of acting" The cast is mostly newcomers,that raises the level of the established filmmakers and actors in Norway. Finally a line works naturally in Norwegian. The movie is about two young writers and their friendship, love and insanity. The story is edited nicely together, and shifts through real life events and the possible, fantasy events Eskil Vogt has written a drama that makes you emotionally evolved in laughter, tears, anger and despair.This is a nice credible piece of film, but still i've got a hunch that it will be soon forgotten...