To celebrate Norway's independence centenary, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater will present the 29-film series A Luminous Century: Celebrating Norwegian Cinema between November 12 — 19. The series was organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Film Institute, with the support of the Consulate General of Norway in New York.
The series consists of samples from the Norwegian film output from the early 1920s to the present, including Gunnar Sommerfeldt's 1921 drama Markens Grode / The Growth of the Soil (Nov. 13, Sun., 1:30pm), adapted from Knut Hamsun's novel; Olle Nordemarand's Academy Award-winning 1950 documentary about the sea expedition of Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki (Nov 20, Sun., 1:30pm; Nov 27, Sun., 2:45pm); Edith Carlmar's 1959 drama Ung Flukt / The Wayward Girl (Nov. 12, Sat., 7:15pm; Nov. 22, Tue., 1:30pm), starring 20-year-old Liv Ullmann in her first film role as a defiant young woman in love (Ullmann will introduce the film at the Nov. 12 screening); and an updated adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's En Folkefiende / An Enemy of the People (Nov. 19, Sat., 9:00pm; Nov. 21, Mon., 1:00pm) directed by Erik SkjoldbjÁ¦rg (Insomnia).
In the Village Voice, Leslie Camhi comments on several films in the series.