Oslo, August 31st

2011 • 1h 35m •

Drama

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★ 7.5/10

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A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.

"Live today, one minute at a time."

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Anders Danielsen Lie

Anders

Malin Crépin

Malin

Hans Olav Brenner

Thomas

Ingrid Olava

Rebecca

Tone Beate Mostraum

Tove

Øystein Røger

David

Aksel Thanke

Terapeut

Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal

Mirjam

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

2024-05-22

Anders Danielsen Lie offers a really quite intense performance here as the recovering drug addict "Anders". His physicians think he's sufficiently improved to be able to spend a day, unsupervised, in Oslo, with family and friends and to have an interview for a job. Initially it all goes well. He drops in on "Thomas" (Hans Olav Brenner) and his family and is geared up (not literally) for his interview. That's where the wheels come off and we spend the rest of his day as he reminisces about the past, encounters some of those important to that past and gradually appears to be coming to terms with...