So beautiful and so stylish, even, that you don't immediately notice the lack of development. One: Learning How to Smile is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Everclear, released on July 11, 2000.The album (along with its sequel, Songs from an American Movie Vol.Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude) is a loose concept album inspired by lead singer Art Alexakiss second divorce. "Hidden" is the type of film that keeps you staring at the screen with interest simply because it's beautifully shot and masterfully stylish. Kai senses that Peter still prowls around the area even though the police holds strong evidence that he fell into the waterfall and died. Peter was a young boy who witnessed his parents dying in a car crash and then fled into the woods. The local vigilante squad naturally suspects him, but he himself is convinced that Peter is behind the strange occurrences. His homecoming coincides with the disappearance of a two young campers that were last seen in the woods surrounding Kai's house. Kai Koss isn't too keen to return because his mother abused him and regularly locked up him up in the basement, and the people he grew up with always considered him to be a social outcast. The somewhat unworldly and introvert Kai Koss returns to his remote backwoods hometown because his old mother passed away and he's the sole heir to inherit the ramshackle parental mansion. Oie serves an attractive potpourri wholesome of dark family secrets, alleged schizophrenia and spiritual connection with nature, but everything remains rather vague and incoherent. ![]() ![]() The filming locations and scenery are truly breathtaking and the thematic influences of ancient Norwegian folklore tales are very intriguing, but the story never really appears to develop itself and eventually drowns in its own atmosphere of mystery and complexity. Pal Oie's second long-feature film is largely reminiscent to his 2003 effort "Dark Woods" which regrettably also means that he makes the same mistakes and trips over the exact same obstacles.
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