Waiter (2006)

Original title

Ober

Directed by

Alex van Warmerdam

Genre

black comedy film

Country

Netherlands, Belgium

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Edgar, a waiter who is unhappy with his life. He deals with his frustrations in strange ways while the story takes a darkly humorous look at creativity and fate.

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What happens

Waiter (Dutch: Ober) is a 2006 Dutch-Belgian absurdist black comedy film by Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of Edgar, a discontented waiter. The film had its world premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on 10 September 2006. It was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival, where Waiter received two Golden Calves, for Best Scenario and Best Production Design. In January 2007 the film received a Golden Film. The film is about stagnation of creativity and a take on overbearing of elements in life, it also takes wryly a puck-shot at god and his relation with humans. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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