Is it worth living a life without passion? No. Is it worth sitting through a 91 minute long movie whose only point is asking if life is worth living without passion? No. Only Europeans could take what might've been a bad, 24-minute long episode of the Twilight Zone, turn it into a feature movie, and call it art. It's beautifully filmed. I found it oddly fascinating to watch, but the plot description is all you need to know. Hint: it's not a placid dream come true. I wondered if Andreas was in a boring, bland place or if he was the star of his own boring, bland movie. "The Bothersome Man" brushed against "Groundhog Day" territory, except there were no laughs and there was no payoff. Perhaps it was meant as commentary on living in one of those bland, Scandinavian, socialist "paradises", but I didn't care.
Review of The Bothersome Man
