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- The Middle Man won’t be for everyone, but viewers with a taste for unconventional but restrained absurdism will find much to enjoy. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2022 Martin Tsai Critic's Notebook
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Sep 20, 2021 · ‘The Middle Man’: Film Review | TIFF 2021. An emotionally repressed man assumes the job of informing family members when unfortunate accidents occur in Bent Hamer's darkly satirical comedy.
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I could talk for hours about the cinematography in this film, the way the shots were framed, and the lighting, creating moving paintings that highlight the story being told perfectly. Hamer did a great job here. The film also has a great score, sometimes you don’t even notice until you listen for it, it fits with what we are seeing sneaky and under...
I’m going to have to do nitpicking to the highest degree to find things that this movie got wrong. I’m sure many might disagree with me and that’s okay, I thought it was great. One thing I can call out about the film is that there are a couple of times the movie references things from the past that we didn’t know were on anybody’s mind. It isn’t im...
I really enjoyed going into this movie blind, being forced to figure it out as it unfolded before me. I’m going to make it a habit of trying to do that more in the future, it just adds another layer of being forced to pay attention. Great art deserves to be paid attention to and often when we have preconceived notions about what something is going ...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Crockett Houghton Film Inquiry. The Middle Man was a happy surprise that is fun and heartfelt, tragic and funny. Full Review | Mar 19, 2023. Rich...
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more...
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May 24, 2022 · When it comes to Bent Hamer’s The Middle Man, this film is no different. Based on the novel Sluk by Lars Saabye Christensen, The Middle Man follows a man named Frank Farelli (Hagen) who is hired as a middle man in a small town named Karmack. His job is delivering bad news.
If you love Nordic noir-style offerings, then The Middle Man should be just the antidote you need to the generic comedy dramas turned out by Hollywood. Directed by Bent Hamer, who also adapted the source novel, this German, Danish, Norwegian, Canadian co-production brings a refreshing Scandi feel to a US-set drama.
Mar 15, 2023 · The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era. The poverty-stricken midwestern town of Karmack has a death rate so high, the new post of ‘middle man’ – the bearer of bad news – is created. But in this blackly funny film, austerity and ‘accidents’ are not entirely unrelated. 14 March 2023.
