The film is about Viktor, an eleven year old boy who has only one hero in the world, his older brother. Viktor and his buddies, Roger and Arnor are trying to start a band to be cooler. Something that does not seem to work out.
Acting
Kid actors who actually feel like real misfit children.
Direction
Berg captures that specific pre-teen desperation perfectly.
Director
Lars Berg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Early 2000s Norwegian cinema had a quiet boom of unsentimental children's films—this fits that niche of treating kids as complex, messy humans.
The three young leads had never acted before; Berg found them through local schools in Oslo and essentially built the film around their actual awkwardness.