Norwegian director Bent Hamer gives Canada a wink and a smile

Norwegian director Bent Hamer has only made two films in English. The first was 2005’s Factotum, based on a Charles Bukowski novel and shot in Minnesota. The second, which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a made-in-Canada co-production called The Middle Man, about an accident-prone small town where one civic employee has the full-time job of delivering bad news. Read More