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'Junk Mail'
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 1, 1998
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Director:
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Pal Sleataune
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Cast:
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Robert Skærstad;
Andrine Sæther;
Per Egil Aske;
Eli Anne Linnestad;
Trond Hovik
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Running Time:
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1 hour, 23 minutes
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Profanity, nudity, sexual situations, beatings and mail tampering
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In Norwegian Pal Sletaune's languidly paced, oddly comic crime thriller, Tim Roth look-alike Robert Skjaerstad plays Roy Amundsen, a slack-jawed, greasy-haired, pasty-faced Oslo mail carrier.
Roy regularly stashes the mail he doesn't feel like delivering in a cave beneath a highway overpass. He also thinks nothing of opening letters addressed to people he doesn't like, which he then delivers, stained with spaghetti sauce. But his real problems don't begin until he lets himself into the apartment of a deaf woman he has a crush on (Andrine Saether).
Actually, part of this sad sack's charm is that he doesn't really consider his problems problems at all, even when he stumbles upon a pile of stolen money and then an attempted suicide. He's less a criminal or a voyeur than a misfit looking for love in all the wrong places. There's something sweet and haunting about this screwy take on "going postal," Scandinavian-style.
In Norwegian with subtitles
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