“A hilarious take on the mock-heroic sporting-underdog genre…The ensemble is uniformly excellent” - Variety
Truls Paulsen was a fanatical middle-aged curling champion but he’s been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and banned from the sport. When he learns that his old friend and coach Gordon is on his deathbed and in vital need of an expensive operation, the once razor-sharp but now heavily-medicated Truls decides to reform his curling team and compete again, in the hope of winning the national championship prize-money for Gordon. Director Ole Endresen puts a bizarre spin on a classic comic premise to produce a pastel-bright comedy that delivers laughs in spades. Truls and his friends are unashamedly uncool, far from beautiful and afford plenty of visual gags, including a hilarious dance-off to MC Hammer’s ‘U Can’t Touch This’. With nods to the deadpan humour and absurdity of Bent Hamer and Roy Andersson’s comedies, Endresen creates a unique knockabout story with a host of amusing observations on middle age, sports obsessives and growing old disgracefully. - Sarah Lutton, BFI London Film Festival
