Bank Ad Frowns Upon Mother-Son Incest, Amateur Rocketship Building

Don't give your kids what they want

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We all fantasize about marrying our moms. Don't we? DnB NOR, Norway's largest bank, posits that incestuous scenario in this memorably uncomfortable spot from ad agency Try/Apt in Oslo—a follow-up to the bank's great George Clooney spot from last year. Director Martin Werner's style is quasi-David Lynch, owing to the bleak, forlorn location ("Heyberkerkie," where wacky marriages are apparently legal) and the great off-kilter performances, particularly by the son, who conveys a distracted air of petulance without saying a word.

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