In "Kitchen Stories" a Swedish company sends a male research observer to do time and motion studies of an old Norwegian farmer in his kitchen in an attempt to design a more efficient standardized kitchen. The film is all about this sort of "odd couple", one Swede and one Norwegian (circa 1950), who manage to carve a friendship out of little more than proximity during a bleak Norwegian winter. A subtitled foreign light comedy with little to offer save its very wry underpinnings and pleasingly poignant tale, "Kitchen Stories" is a not-for-everyone film which with appeal most to those into quaint and off beat little foreign flicks. (B-)
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