Jonny Vang (2003)

Cautiously Recommended

Norway

Feature Film

Director: Jens Lien

Writer: Ståle Stein Berg

Cinematographers: Philip Øgaard & Erling Thurmann-Andersen

Composers: Calexico

Cast: Aksel Hennie, Laila Goody, Fridtjov Såheim, Marit Adeleide Andreassen, Bjørn Sundquist, Nils Vogt, Anders Ødegård

When a number of attempts are made on the life of loveable loser Jonny Vang, a budding worm farmer who is having an affair with his best friend’s wife, he finds it very difficult to get anyone in his tiny, rural hometown to take his plight seriously, leaving him to vainly plough on with his dream alone, in Lien’s entertaining and unpredictable if rather lightweight black farce. Iain.Stott