Name: Bungalow
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003-02-06
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm

A summer weekend on the home pool. Sounds great. In this case however, it is nothing more than Paul's small-town shelter from an outside world that seems to have only pointlessness on offer to him. Also, the army sucks which Paul joined after finishing high school apparently for the lack of any better plan. Out of a mood he just left the troops without permission, so that bungalow and pool are also a hiding place while the army keeps on looking for him.

We see a young fellow who excels in being passive aggressive and in annoying his older brother, while their parents are on holiday. He pisses off his own girlfriend and falls in love with his brother's Danish girlfriend, who actually shows some sympathy for him.

As a matter of fact, there is not very much going on in the movie, a fact that also can be seen as a catalyst for Paul's aimlessness. Is any effort still worth the trouble in the light of a complacent, materialistic affluent society!

For that matter Paul is not really uncongenial and parts of me could feel with him when looking in his bored and help seeking eyes. Quite good low-emotion acting there.

Surely, the movie was not primarily made to entertain but I found it good to relate to. In parts it is almost existentialistic. Is life meaningless in the first place and it is up to oneself to give it a meaning?

Not an easy movie but it felt right.

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