this be norwegian film in a nutshell and stiff and unnatural dialouge and an introvert main character and a pretentious story fill with angst . this movie be about regret and guilt and the ability to forgive each other and to make it all too obvious most of the story involve a church . long scene without dialouge that be mean to be sacral and beautiful but turn out just irritate and predictable . i just can not understand the mainstream critic who swallow this pompous and totally boring piece of . just because the movie deal with serious issue involve god and forgiveness and so on it shouldn not be praise a the work of a genius . but i guess there will always be a bunch of pseudo intellectual which enjoy these kind of movie with their red wine . if you want too see a good norwegian movie and see fatso and it underrate and it do not go well with the critic . maybe because it fill up with good dialouge and exit character and spot on observation and but i guess that doesn not appeal to the elitist in the medium .