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Hunger hamsun novel5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Pontus wanders the streets of Christiana moving from a semblance of rationality to hallucinatory madness yet still retaining his dignity and cool intelligence. ![]() Not only is he in every scene in the film, but the film can scarcely even be conceived of without his presence. Oscarsson totally captures the struggling author in a magnificent performance for which he won the award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Shot in black and white, the film captures the bleakness of a world looking for a soul. Based on Norwegian author Knut Hamsun's psychological novel of the same name, Henning Carlsen's Hunger probes the inner working of the mind of a talented young writer living in poverty and on the verge of insanity. He stops a policeman to inquire about the time, but insists that the officer is in error. He follows two young women on their walk through the city of Christiana (later Oslo) in Norway in 1890, yet keeps telling one of the women that she has dropped her book. His smile reveals a core of rotting teeth and his manner seems odd. At first glance, Pontus (Per Oscarsson) looks like a well-groomed businessman but on second look, there is something not right. ![]()
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