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Kissed by Winter (2005)

Kissed by Winter (2005)
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With her uncommonly gentle, understated slice-of-life drama Kissed by Winter (AKA Vinterkyss), director and co-writer Sara Johnsen observes the intersection of several troubled lives in a Norwegian small town. As physician Anika Hallin recovers from the culture shock of a transplant from the big city of Oslo to this new rural community, she must also grapple with the memories of the calamity that her estranged husband forced her to endure; meanwhile, snow-plow driver Kaj (Kristoffer Joner) contends with his wife's abandonment of him - after he just recently finished construction of an expensive house entirely for her sake. In a third substory, two married Iranian immigrants (Mina Azarian and Michalis Koutsogiannakis) learn that their missing son, Darjosh (Jade Francis Haj) has turned up dead on the side of the road with strange punctures on the bottoms of his feet. As the mystery of this death lingers, each character suffers through his or her own deeply personal, emotional crisis and grapples with the need to take responsibility for the young man's tragic end. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Starring:
Annika HallinKristoffer Joner, (more)
Director(s):
Sara Johnsen
Format(s):
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Synopsis of Kissed by Winter

With her uncommonly gentle, understated slice-of-life drama Kissed by Winter (AKA Vinterkyss), director and co-writer Sara Johnsen observes the intersection of several troubled lives in a Norwegian small town. As physician Anika Hallin recovers from the culture shock of a transplant from the big city of Oslo to this new rural community, she must also grapple with the memories of the calamity that her estranged husband forced her to endure; meanwhile, snow-plow driver Kaj (Kristoffer Joner) contends with his wife's abandonment of him - after he just recently finished construction of an expensive house entirely for her sake. In a third substory, two married Iranian immigrants (Mina Azarian and Michalis Koutsogiannakis) learn that their missing son, Darjosh (Jade Francis Haj) has turned up dead on the side of the road with strange punctures on the bottoms of his feet. As the mystery of this death lingers, each character suffers through his or her own deeply personal, emotional crisis and grapples with the need to take responsibility for the young man's tragic end. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
80 mins

Complete Cast of Kissed by Winter


Director(s):
Sara Johnsen
Writer(s):
Sara JohnsenStale Stein Berg
Producer(s):
Christian Fredrik MartinAsle Vatn
Categories:
Mystery & Suspense
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    Ann C.

    You really have to understand Scandinavians and their world to appreciate this film. For me, this isn't a problem, but I found that following its 3 cryptic yet interconnected stories--with much switching back and forth in time--made me somewhat impatient.. Also, expressive characters don't figure here very much, except for the bereaved Iranian family. Annika Hallin, as the central character, shows very little emotion. Still, it proved to be an interesting film.

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    Linda G.

    It was not explained in the description of the movie that it was a foreigh film. It took me quite some time to figure out that I could get English sub-titles and found it very distracting to have to watch/read a movie in that manner. Otherwise the movie was not to bad, but would not have rented it had I known.

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