The young Norwegain sailor Almar get stranded under odd circumstances in a sleepy Spanish mediterranean island town, while waiting for his valauble pocket watch to be repaired. There he has an accident with the newspaper deliver girl Marta. This is the opening plot of "Water Easy Reach" (In Norwegian: "En dag til i solen", which translated means "Another day in the sun".)
This is acclaimed Norewegian filmmaker Bent Hamer second feature film after the genius "Eggs" three years earlier, and since then he has made several films of which all I've really liked. The tops are Kitchen Stories, Eggs and O'Horten, but every film from Hamer is well worth a watch. So is this film, which I had to wait 20 years to get to see, due to it being rare after being sold out on DVD back in 1999.
Bent Hamer's films are always quite slow paced charming stories about normal people showing their odd sides in the meeting with others. You could call it the every day humor, and making the films a fun and rememberable watch.
Water Easy Reach is no different, and the actors are all doing a great job, like Nicholas Hope here as an English encounter, and of course the lead Eric Magnusson, which also is great.
Water Easy Reach is one of those small films which stays with you after you've seen it, due to the charm and humanity which lacks in Amercan films.
