Two middle-aged Scandinavian men sit around and become friends: How does that work out to be a delicious comedy? The answer is in Kitchen Stories, a truly delightful movie that played here last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival and also enjoyed success at Cannes.
Kitchen Stories is loosely based on actual research conducted in Sweden in the 1950s. Women were carefully observed in their kitchens -- what routines they used, how their floor, counter and cupboard space were organized, etc. -- so that housework techniques could be refined. No, really. It happened. We're not making that up.
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