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Shameless
- Director: Petter Næss
- Writer: Lars Saabye Christensen; Åse Vikene
- Producer: Dag Alveberg; Synnøve Hørsdal
CGiii Comment
This is an intense piece of work - ruined by two fundamental mistakes.
A bad wig: Did no-one notice this ever-increasing, ridiculous haystack? A situation cheated out of its complexity because of a bad wig!!!
An immensely irritating wobbly camera and the shifting focus - serving only to remind you that you are, indeed, watching a film - shattering the intensity.
Could you imagine having an intersex child and letting them grow up without ever explaining their condition and refusing medical intervention - except from an note to exempt the kid from gym class...well, that's what this film expects from you! Completely ridiculous.
And...with the gaping plot-holes, what could have been an impressive film is completely and undeniably destroyed.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
It's the summer of 1951 in Oslo. Lillian and Amund Wang are blessed with their first and only child. A boy. Or is it a girl? Outside there's a solar eclipse, and all the birds stops singing. Young Adrian isn't getting the operation which might give him the life he deserves in a conservative environment, and the apartment where he grows up becomes a greenhouse for the darkest flowers. Adrian grows up on lies, dying love and shamelessness. At 15 he overhears a conversation between the parents, which makes him attack his parents, and make him dangerous for his surroundings. Adrian takes his shame and guilt, and takes his punishment as a responsibility put upon him.
Cast & Characters
Marcus Mathias Aarnseth as Adrian Wang;
Maria Bonnevie as Lillian Wang;
Eindride Eidsvold as Amund Wang;
Hallvard Holmen as Laerer Jacobsen;
Kjersti Holmen as Tante;
Sven Nordin as Konstabel;
Andrea Pharo Ronde as Emilie;
Dennis Storhoi as Doktor Ask;
Bjorn Sundquist as Rektor