Kitchen Stories review

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Fifties Norway. A Swedish scientist (Tomas Norström) is dispatched to study the kitchen routines of a farmer (Joachim Calmeyer). Fraternisation is forbidden but, over time, the two men develop a life-changing relationship...

It may sound as boring as watching water boil, but Kitchen Stories is a fable about our need to connect, Norwegian writer/director Bent Hamer tracing how emotions get in the way of research.

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