Review of Helmer & søn

Helmer & søn (2006)
Excellent father-son 12 minute film short.
28 October 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Scandinavian film, with English subtitles. The son is called to the nursing home because his elderly father failed to show up for dinner then breakfast the next day. His behavior is erratic and they need help. So he arrives and is taken to his father's room, they hear a voice, his father is in the wardrobe at the side to the room. Can the son talk him out?

Meanwhile, we overhear in the conversation in the hallway, an older lady has also apparently disappeared. I believe we know where this is headed.

Then, the old man overhears a phone conversation his son is having with a client, in the business the dad had given the son. Frustrated, the son says to his dad, "I used to dread when you would not be around anymore, and now I find myself not dreading it." At that the old man came out of the wardrobe, naked, and hugged his son. When the other door opens, we see the missing woman, also naked.

The son had always feared that he would not run the business up to the standards his father had. But when his father revealed that he had no love for the old business, and hoped that his son could do something better with it, all the pressure was off the son.
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