Norway’s Hippy Era Comes To An End In THE LAST JOINT VENTURE

Based on a cult novel, helmed by the director of crime drama Izzat and the first of the Varg Veum films and featuring a cast that just won’t quit - UNO‘s Nicolai Cleve Broche and Naboer‘s Kristoffer Joner headline - upcoming Norwegian stoner comedy The Last Joint Venture is one that I’ve been tracking closely for some time now and today we were graced with the first quartet of stills to be released from the film.

“Paranoid is when you think someone’s following you, but if you know it, that’s different, right?” says Carl in The Last Joint Venture. The final strains of the hippie decade are fading, and the 80s are looming ahead. Carl (Kristoffer Joner) and Robert (Nicolai Cleve Broch) are two wasters who live in harmony with the world, letting life slide by in an eternal cannabis haze. They earn their keep peddling small batches of hash, and feel they provide an essential supplement to the suffering populace.

Following the worst drought ever in Oslo’s streets, they now face the final score: forty-five keys of prime Nepali hash await distribution – and Carl and Robert are set to make a fortune. Finally they can realise their dream about a commune in the country!

But then Glen (Kåre Conradi) turns up, a financial backer with ambitious, coked-up plans. Carl and Robert are jolted out of the fog, and now have to fight back. Equipped with Afghan coats, a ghettoblaster and a battered Peugeot, they face a breathless, dramatic and hilarious trip through Oslo’s underworld and into the darkest forests of Norway.

The Last Joint Venture is based on Ingvar Ambjørnsens cult slacker novel about the transition from the idyllic 70s to the hardnosed egotism of the yuppie era. The film is directed by Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, the creator of films like Izzat and Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers.

Hit the link below to check out the stills!