The Middle Man (2021)
- Directed by
- Bent Hamer
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 55 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In a small, economically depressed town, a man is hired by the municipality to deliver bad news to residents. The film follows his unpleasant job and the strange situations that arise.
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What happens
The Middle Man is a 2021 black comedy film, directed by Bent Hamer. An adaptation of Lars Saabye Christensen's 2012 novel Sluk, it is set in a small town that is so economically depressed that the municipality hires Frank Farrelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) as a middle man for the increasingly frequent task of delivering bad news to inhabitants. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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