A taut, exciting, surprising espionage movie and a documentary I could not finish

The Norwegian film Two Lives by Georg Maas is a terrific spy drama that is unfortunately destined for obscurity because it's in Norwegian and awash in arcana of post-War European politics and features no well-known actors except for Liv Ullman in a secondary role. Too bad - once you figure out the overall political background for this film - Norwegian people were extremely intolerant of the women who consorted with occupying Nazi soldiers and removed their children and sent them to Germany; years later, the East German government used some of these Norwegian-German children as strained spies infiltrated into Norway (and elsewhere) - this, apparently, all true - and the movie is also apparently loosely based on an actual unsolved murder connected with this espionage. In any event, the plot is intriguing and tight, keeps you guessing but eventually supplies all the answers, along with many surprises, twists, and emotionally taut scenes. Great pace, some fine acting, lots of moral ambiguity - as well as some real pure evil; unlike so many other spy films this one not awash and bluster nor in excessive violence and mayhem - no superheroes, just a seemingly ordinary family holding lots of mystery and living on the edge of danger without being aware of that. Maas makes us feel sorry not only for the poor duped family members - notably the well-meaning but utterly deceived husband Bjarte - but also for the perpetrator. I won't give away any more - definitely worth watching, and perhaps someone will try to remake this in English for wider distribution, and I hope they don't ruin it in doing so. Fat chance.

By the way also watched or tried to watch the documentary Manakamana, which is billed as a movie that follows pilgrims in Nepal as they travel to a mountainous shrine; it's a documentary of the sort that I admire - no commentary, no interviews, no added soundtrack - just the camera capturing the incidents as they unfold before it (Sweetgrass is a perfect example) - but in this case: first, we watch a long take, camera steady no editing, of an old man and presumably his grandson riding an aerial lift up a mountainside - no dialog at all - it's quite a breathtaking journey, scary and beautiful. Then we watch a young woman on the same journey. About 20 minutes gone now. As a 3rd journey started, I flashed ahead on the movie and saw that the entire movies is the same aerial lift repeated 15 or 20 times. OK, perhaps each is an interesting document in itself - but is this worth an whole movie? I thought we would actual follow some of these people, learn a little about them and about the pilgrimage, something. Maybe this could play on an endless loop somewhere and people could enjoy moments of it as they pass by the screen or monitor, but it's certainly not designed for anyone to watch it straight through - at least not me, babe.