Mr. K

Local title
Härra K
Country
Netherlands, Norway, Belgium
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Screen International Critics' Choice
Genre
Drama, Supernatural, Fantasy, Dark comedy
Subject
alienation, surrealism, mysticism, journey, absurd

Crispin Glover finds himself trapped in the hotel from hell in this Kafkaesque surrealist comedy.

If there’s one thing that’s direct about this labyrinthine existentialist mindbender from Norway-born, Amsterdam-based filmmaker Tallulah H Schwab, it’s the title – a clear reference to Franz Kafka and the writer’s frustrated protagonist from his final novel "The Castle". In terms of exuberant absurdity, however, the film has at least as much in common with the work of Samuel Beckett. That’s thanks to its darkly comic air and Mr. K himself (Crispin Glover) who, after checking into a hotel and discovering he can never leave, finds his sense of self being stripped away. Perhaps not a film for those who look for neat plots and easy answers, here the questions spin like planets – but, as one character puts it, “The trick is to recognise what’s important.”

Amber Wilkinson, Screen International

Screenwriter
Tallulah H. Schwab
Cast
Crispin Glover, Sunnyi Melles, Fionnula Flanagan, Bjørn Sundquist, Dearbhla Molloy, Barbara Sarafian, Jan Gunnar Røise, Esmée van Kampen, Sam Louwyck
Producer
Erik Glijnis, Leontine Petit, Judy Tossell, Dries Phlypo
Cinematographer
Frank Griebe
Production Design
Maarten Piersma, Manolito Glas
Editing
Maarten Janssens
Composer
Stijn Cole
Music
Nils Viken, Bror Kristiansen
Production
Lemming Film
World sales
LevelK
Runtime
Language
English
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Sitges, Toronto, Busan

Screenings

8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening010803 / Härra K
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Saal Kino Sõprus
Screening083102 / Härra K
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Hall 1 Kino Artis
Screening162103 / Härra K
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
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