CHLOROX, AMMONIA AND COFFEE! A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2005 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ** 1/2
Maria (Benedikte Lindbeck), a very pregnant woman with a cheating husband, Erik (Dennis Storhøi), who is about to go bankrupt for a second time, has decided to put her faith in Jesus. No, not that Jesus. Jesus (Fares Fares) who runs the local grocery store. Jesus will always remember Maria since her water broke the day she robbed him -- with a toy pistol.
CHLOROX, AMMONIA AND COFFEE! (SALTO, SALMIAKK OG KAFFE) is either a drama that uses comedy to tell its story or vice versa. I could never decide for sure which. There is even a police officer named Odd -- I'm not making this up -- who likes to sing as he trampolines, which catches the eye of a local midwife named Iris (Kjersti Holmen). Iris's claim to fame is that she scrubs her already clean floors with lots of bleach.
Meanwhile, Iris's daughter has a drug problem, which is fed by the drugs that a shoplifting grandmother, albeit not her own grandmother, steals from a local pharmacy. This grandmother is the mother of the aforementioned Erik, who is a coke head and prone to driving while stoned out of his mind. The movie features a host of stories, which intertwine and finally come together in an ending featuring an up close and personal birthing scene, as well as everything else but a fireworks display. Exhaustion is what I felt after trying to keep up with these mile-a-minute montages.
CHLOROX, AMMONIA AND COFFEE! runs 1:46. The film is in Norwegian with English subtitles.
The film is being shown as part of San Jose's Cinequest Film Festival (www.Cinequest.org), which runs March 2-13, 2005.
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