I ungdommens makt

WOW! I mean WOW! This movie is weird, like really weird. It's also bad. I mean really really bad. But it's also extremely hilarious. Sure, Norway has had it's fair share of extremely campy films over the years like "Heaven and Hell" (1969), "1958" (1980) and off course the legendary pretentious "DIS" (1995) which is basically the Norwegian version of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room". (2003) But "Junior Heads" is WAY WAY weirder than any of these. It's about a youth-leader who lives in the rich town of Bærum. Half of this movie is basically just about him talking about his penis (or "pi" as he has named it) and his early pubescent life. The other half is about the students at the local school who wants to riot against it's teachers simply to introduce philosophy-studies at the school in opposition to the local church. The film also have short interview-scenes where Garbo ask the locals philosophical and political questions, just to make the film look more serious. But in all fairness; this movie is more ridiculous than any Norwegian films I have ever seen. And I've seen Prima Vera's film about Olav the Holy! So if you can get your hands on a bootleg, don't pass it up!

Roar Skolmen's debut feature is a surreal, odd and generally weird film in vein of Dusan Makajevs «Sweet Movie». This was a complete break with the prevalent social realism of 1970's Norwegian cinema.

To say that this film was considered controversial at it's time is an understatement, with several prominent critics asking if the Norwegian state should continue to finance films if the quality was so low. It has two times won the dubious honor of being declared the worst film in the history of Norwegian cinema. It contents for it's time was and still is considered both shocking and dilettantish. A real life «virgin» birth, scenes of an authentic cremation and a alien abduction is some of the highlights here, interspersed with documentarian interviews with youths in the streets of Oslo about sex and social issues.

Director Skolmen has stated that he was inspired by Ken Russell and he is prone to the same cinematic hysteria as the british provocateur.

With that in mind, «I ungdommens makt» or «Junior Heads» is recommended viewing for the adventurous aficionado of cult cinema!