Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together - at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favour: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild, brutally funny .. Read more
| Starring | Lena Headey, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Louise Goodall |
|---|---|
| Director | Hans Petter Moland |
| Genres | Drama |
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Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together - at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favour: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild, brutally funny yet heartbreaking journey, which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destination.
| Starring | Lena Headey, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Louise Goodall, Jason Hetherington |
|---|---|
| Director | Hans Petter Moland |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: not available |
Hinging on a volatile relationship between father and daughter, Aberdeen is a road trip where the journey is essentially emotional. Lena Headey and Stellan Skarsgård are both excellent as the pair thrown together by their ex-wife and mother Charlotte Rampling. Sent to Oslo with orders to bring her alcoholic father back to Aberdeen, Headey scuppers what should have been a straightforward trip with a bout of lounge-rage at Oslo airport and they are forbidden a flight. Car and ferry, then, for the both of them. Fuelled by alcohol (Skarsgård), coke (Headey) and anger (both), it's touch and go whether they'll make it without concussing each other with their hefty emotional baggage. Ian Hart softens the blows as a trucker who manages to come along for the ride.
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Powerful, with emotional depth rarely seen...
Hans Petter Moland's Aberdeen is possibly one of the best independent films made in the last decade. The biggest shame is that it was never released in the ... read more »
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