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Oslo, August 31st

Oslo, August 31st

7,5 /10 (515 Votes)
2011 NO 95 min

Overview

A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.

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Release date

31/08/2011

Votes

515

Popularity

1.5

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Status

Released

Original title

Oslo, 31. august

Language

NO

Runtime

95 min

Revenue

$1,481,665

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-05-22

⭐ 7

Anders Danielsen Lie offers a really quite intense performance here as the recovering drug addict "Anders". His physicians think he's sufficiently improved to be able to spend a day, unsupervised, in Oslo, with family and friends and to have an interview for a job. Initially it all goes well. He drops in on "Thomas" (Hans Olav Brenner) and his family and is geared up (not literally) for his interview. That's where the wheels come off and we spend the rest of his day as he reminisces about the past, encounters some of those important to that past and gradually appears to be coming to terms with…

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