Film fra Sør

Films from the South

In our stay in Oslo we had the opportunity to check what was going on in Norway's capital city concerning films and there was a festival called "Films from the South", presenting films from Latin America, Africa and Asia. The festival is held every year since 1991 on different cinemas of Oslo. Al tough the selection of the films seems good, we were not very lucky with our choice. The film we saw was "This is Chaos" or "Heya Fawda"(Egypt, 2007) watch the trailer here. The film is about a corrupt policeman who falls in love with a girl who doesn't like him, and through almost 2 hours we see how "Hatem" suffers from this uncorresponded love, with one of the worst acting performances I have seen in my entire life. The acting is so bad that it seemed funny to most of the audience. In a few words, the film can be seen as the perfect recepie of how to ruin a movie: bad script, terrible actors, horrible direction. Even tough, it's always good to take risks like this, as you never know when a non-commercial movie will be nice until you see it.
Soon we'll have Bergen International Film Festival in town, and all the best of it here in the blog...
Cheers!