En dag till i solen

A young Norwegian sailor is left astern in a small port-town in northern Spain. When he hands in his inherited pocket watch to be repaired, his ship departs and leaves him behind. Suddenly it is as if the time
in the little town has stopped, just like his broken watch. And the ships; the one that leaves him behind and the one which finally takes him away, are like two brackets around a slightly surrealistic episode. A new world opens up for him.
An Australian sailor, full of stories of pirates and with a self-claimed experience in the ways of the world, as well as the beautiful daughter of a lighthouse-keeper, lure our ''gutt'' into adventures, where among other things we get a glimpse of Swedish actor Leif Andre in a not so flattering part. The watchmakers, two meticulous old men, have an extremely patient outlook on watches and time. The time no longer permits itself to be measured in the ordinary way. En dagtil i solen is a film about searching and personal growth.
The dominating force in En dagtil i solen is not the story, but the poetic observations and moods. I am reminded of Antonioni's Yrke: reporter, where a lost Jack Nicholson roams around in a windy desert searching for his identity - even
if the hero Almar (Eric Magnusson) does not ooze of the same decisiveness as Jack Nicholson, but rather gets by in the trustworthy Scand i navian way.
At the Norweigan premiere this spring, Per Haddal wrote in the paper Aftenposten that Hamer stylizes single philosophical subjects with his willful and explaining anecdotes. The film contains burlesque elements, absurdities and a beautiful form of surrealism.
That Bent Hamer, who both wrote and directed this his second feature film, likes to think of himself as a member of the European auteur- and art-film tradition, is beyond all doubt.
ISAK WESTERSTROM

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Erik Magnusson, Nicholas Hope, Francisco Rabal: Producent
Finn Gjerdrum: Manus
Bent Hamer: Foto
Philip 0gaard: Musik
The Flesh Quartet: Talat språk
Norwegian