The Black Lapp (2003)

Instant Favorite.

Better Late Then Never

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

I don't know what the title means exactly, but it doesn't sound like something nice! On the contrary, exactly like the mood of the film. It's far away from anything Hollywood/glamor movie you can think of. It's also unpredictable! There's black humor involved obviously here, and if you don't get it, you will feel dreadful watching this one. It's quirky and because it's low budget and has this unbelievable characters, I'm prone to love it ... but it just has too many bad things going against it for that! I don't know if you can call it acting what the principal performers do here, but it suits the movie well. There are even glimpses of horror, drama, love-story and (as mentioned) comedy to be found here ... definitely something you either love or hate very much, but really hard to describe (as a movie-experience)!

One of the greatest Nordic films ever. Great surrealism and a wonderful play with the time line. For example when Anna gets pregnant and one of the others notice it until Anna asks the mother. The funniest thing about that is that she's about 5 minutes away from giving birth. Or when Ante finds the children (they're twins) and says:"I'm a father... and Norrman to."The soundtrack is also very interesting with Ulver as composers, and one detail that makes the music great in the film is when you actually see an orchestra.I suppose you'll have to watch it a couple of times to really appreciate it. But when you've done that you'll like it as much as me.

If you're tired of politically correct thrillers, chick flicks and endlessly boring dramas from Hollywood, this is the movie for you! A group of mostly drunk but always entertaining people living on a fjord in Norway go through a series of events that could only happen in the imagination of a hunchbacked orphan dope fiend. I'll skip the plot outline, as it has already been done; no outline could do this film justice. Don't bother trying to predict what will happen next; the only certainty while watching this movie is that the unexpected, the bizarre, the ridiculous and the absurd will always prevail. Did I see the ending coming? No, I didn't even attempt such lofty heights of madness. I just sat back with my girlfriend, the red-haired Irish queen of late night cinema, and enjoyed it.Don't bother picking out a favorite character among the adulterous lapplanders, the wife-killing alcoholics, the lecherous older women, the semi-retarded oafs or the sex-starved nymphettes; every single character gets their whole world turned upside down and all around, somehow seeming to enjoy the process and have a completely optimistic view of the future as their houses burn, they chop pieces off themselves with axes, and deliver babies unaided on hillsides.If you want something different and yet enjoyable, this is it. If you want pretentious art flicks or mainstream Hollywood, go somewhere else. This movie fits in between somewhere.

I learned about this movie when checking the new releases of my favorite band, ULVER, who did the great score to this movie. When I learned, what "Svidd Neger" really means and that the movie was reported to the European Court of Human Rights in Hague, I imagined it would be some sort of shocking drama.Nah...it's a comedy, or at least sort of!It's hard to describe, what the movie is about at all, but a main topic are racial conflicts in Norway. The Characters are fairly strange, we have Karl, who is the king of his 10 acre fjord property and always dreams about his murdered wife. Anna, Karls daughter, who should have been a boy instead, likes to sing real tearjerker songs and is about to marry the next "prince" that drops in. On the other side of the fjord live Ante, a black who believes he's a mysterious "Sea Saami", his stepbrother Peder, who wanks till ...(you'll see), and their mother Ellen. In addition a Saami by the name of "Normann Hætta Bongo Utsi Saus" strikes a camp nearby. He's a real Peeping Tom and constantly gets calls from his mom. In the end, there's the black commander of some American Nato troops, who is desperately in need of a son.So 1 1/2 hours full of promiscuity, gore and explosions unfold(actually the explosions are the highlights of this movie, always interesting to see, WHAT things are able to explode :) ).The movie scores with both great soundtrack and the beautiful Norwegian landscapes. Yet the cut was done very roughly and the transitions between the scenes are lacking or poorly.If you like mind-twisting avant-garde trash, you shouldn't miss this movie!