''Cold Lunch'' () is a 2008 Norwegian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Eva Sørhaug, starring

Ane Dahl Torp Ane Dahl Torp (born 1 August 1975) is a Norwegian actress. Early life Born on 1 August 1975, in Bærum Torp is the daughter of Norwegian linguistics professor Arne Torp. Career Torp had her first film appearance in ''The Woman of My Life' ...

Pia Tjelta Pia Merete Tjelta (born 12 September 1977, in Stavanger) is a Norwegian actress. Tjelta graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2006, but had already appeared in many films. She made her film debut in 2001 in the film '' Mo ...

and

Aksel Hennie Aksel Hennie (born 29 October 1975) is a Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles in the films '' Headhunters'' (2011), ''Hercules'' (2014), and '' The Martian'' (2015). Early life Hennie was born in the Lambert ...

. It was Sørhaug's début as a director.

Plot

The plot of Cold Lunch has multiple dramatic threads set off when Christer (Aksel Hennie) tries to stop a communal washing machine to retrieve rent money left in one of his pockets. Removing a fuse from the building's main power supply sets in motion a number of events affecting the lives of residents in the building.

Reception

Reviewers were somewhat split in their assessment of the film. In a review for Norwegian newspaper

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, Eirik Alver gave the movie a " die throw" of five and called it thematically "recognizable". Jon Selås of

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gave it only three points, calling it a "uneven mix of ambitious, uncompromising will".

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