A good movie with a wonderful actor Stellan Skarsgård. and Lena Headey was excellent too. Hans Petter Moland did it well,but not as good as he did in " The beautiful country ".

The relationship between a father and a daughter is too complicated to comprehend. In "Aberdeen" we are united with perhaps the most dysfunctional relationship in independent film history. Kaisa, a successful, drug addicted young woman who sleeps around with various guys, is requested by her dying mother to fly to Norway from Scotland and pick up her alcoholic father and bring him to Aberdeen before her mom dies. Not only do the father and daughter hate each other, but they can't get along for one second. What's really brilliant that directer Hans Peter Molland does is make you care for these two people no matter how terrible they may seem. He points out the flaws in people, and examines how complicated family relationships can be. The true prize of the film is Lena Headey and Stellan Skarsgard for portraying two broken people who have to deal with each other for an entire trip. It's great to see Headey as a young actress in a small film before becoming Cersei Lannister on "Game of Thrones." You see how emotional she can be as an actress, and it is impossible to make you not care about her character. Skarsgard plays the drunk better than anyone in movies. He shows the physical and mental damages that alcoholism does, but more importantly, what it does to others. "Aberdeen" delivers us into a world of hatred and dysfunction, but finds room to fix all that with beauty and growth of a failed relationship that isn't forever damaged.

"Aberdeen" is a road trip of a father-daughter relationship. But with raw, uninhibited performances by Stellan Starsgard (as an alcoholic Norwegian oil rigger) and Lena Headey (with a thick Scotch brogue).Charlotte Rampling is a very effective deus ex machina mother bringing them together with a goal and a deadline, while Ian Hart is memorable as the nice, normal guy thrown into their war, helping to restore their sanity. One of the most romantic scenes I've seen in the movies in years is him simply wiping her brow, while the dad looks on uncomfortably.The route and fine details of this picaresque film are unpredictable, as they find Aberdeen and themselves. (originally written 8/31/2001)

Aberdeen is a unique piece, with an interesting soundtrack, PERFECT acting, and an outstanding plot. As mentioned earlier, it's so very European with its realism. Slow, but rewarding. Also, I think Stellan Skarsgård is the best actor ever! Not just this movie, but his other stuff as well. Especially Insomnia and this one. He's just brilliant. I've also seen his son on Ondskan, so I'll simply try to watch every movie that has anything to do with the Skarsgård family from now on! I can only think of Rutger Hauer who might be as good as him. Lena Headey is also adorable. She's got goddess looks, and the best of acting skills. Such great actors and a nice story makes Aberdeen a wonderful movie. Aberdeen is nothing like a Hollywood movie, but despite what it seems, neither is it exactly one of those movies which are crowned by intellectual-wannabes as masterpieces just because they're boring as hell. If you like Tarkovsky or Klimov, you'll dislike this movie. If you like Hollywood, you'll hate this movie. (And it'll hate you too!) If you weren't disgusted by the superficiality of Love Actually, you'll be disgusted by the depth of this movie. But if you're interested in the works of relatively new generation Scandinavian directors, then Aberdeen will look fine to you. All in all, it could have been much better with, say, Lars Von Trier, but it's also pretty darn good as it is. 8.5/10 - Recommended!