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presents "Junk Mail" directed by Pal Sletaune |
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Roy (ROBERT SKJAERSTAD) is not your typical mailman. Ruled by curiosity, he has an uncanny ability to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night would prevent Roy from indulging his unprofessional ethics. He has no respect for property or privacy, insults his colleagues, and habitually breaks the ultimate postal taboo…stealing mail. Life goes in small circles for Roy, and all news is old news. One day, something happens on his appointed round. A young woman, Line (ANDRINE SAETHER) forgets her keys in the mailbox. Unable to resist the opportunity, Roy goes up to the apartment and unlocks the door. As soon as he steps over the threshold, his life takes a different turn. And the more he discovers, the more he involves himself in something far more dangerous than opening other people's mail.
Sletaune admits that he has for a very long time wanted to make a film about a character like mailman -Roy, a "cockroach", a low-level existence. As for Georg, the seemingly psychotic, drug-crazed, homicidal ex-boyfriend of Line, Sletaune insists that he is not a monster, that he is really afraid.
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Copyright 1998
Cinternational |
JUNK
MAIL by Pal Sletaune is a black comedy about love, money
that no one wants, cold canned spaghetti, karaoke, involuntary good
deeds, rutting and the joy of being comatose. 
In
interview, director Pal Sletaune says that the ending was right
there in the first draft of the screenplay. Without giving it away,
one could say that murder, robbery, attempted suicide and passion
are NOT more than a mailman can handle, after all. 
Sletaune's
enchanting descriptions and depictions of these would-be losers
provides insight into why JUNK MAIL is such a compelling
production.