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Cool & Crazy, which has plucked the heartstrings of the Nordic countries and arrived to praise in Britain, is to open in the coming weeks in France, Germany and elsewhere. But hold on a minute. A documentary about a year in the life of the Berlev?g Male Choir? In Norwegian, with subtitles? Wouldn't watching icicles form be more interesting? Actually, no. This charming feature-length film by the Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen is so full of warmth, humor, sensitivity, beauty, social commentary and stirring music that it will melt any negative preconceptions...
...idiosyncratic center to Cool & Crazy. The men, aged 29 to 96, have let Jensen's cameras get close, capturing their views on life and love in bathtub and bedroom interviews, at a feast of cod tongue and potatoes, at the local social security office (which "employs" much of the choir) and on a rollicking concert trip to Russia. They love the simple things that give their lives meaning - family, singing and home in an otherworldly region that is as far from Oslo as Oslo is from Rome. "Perhaps what you seek is in front of your eyes," they sing...
...addict and a bellicose communist - are kindly and ornery, childlike and cynical, flirty and stern. The camera lingers over small details: as one man bemoans his political passivity, his kettle boils furiously. Jensen is an ennobler who cushions and elevates moments of personal vulnerability with footage of the whole choir performing its hymns and folk songs. "Every man is holy," he says. "Every man is unique...
...Vaux’s field should be left to the experts, both here and at other institutions. Insofar as students are qualified to judge his candidacy—in his performance as an instructor inside and outside of the classroom—he’s preaching to the choir...
...Immediate Gratification Players, an improv group, and the Collegium Musicum choir performed in other separate events...