Baard Owe, Bjarte Hjelmeland, Bjorn Floberg
The moment the train leaves the station without train driver Odd Horten aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. Horten has retired, and...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 19, 2009
Stats: 224 reviews
Typically melancholic meditation on retirement encased in a meandering plot where the lead bumps into a host of eccentrics who aid his introspection. Slight but not without charm.
The retirement of a train driver provides more philosophical musings from Scandinavia with a touch of dry humour. Some nice cinematography and scenes of Norwegian life, but this isn't really an attention grabbing movie, just slow, light entertainment.
Where's the point? It could've been the acting, directing or editing, but there was something a bit off about this film, or collection of vignettes more like. I suppose each action, situation or decision had something deep and meaningful behind it, but I'll be damned if I knew wh...( read more)
Odd Horten es un conductor de trenes quien se retira despues de 40 años de servicio. Desafortunadamente no tiene mucho que hacer con su tiempo.
Esta cinta de origen noruega es extraña. Tiene tintes comicos aunque realmente no es una comedia (al menos no de esas tipicas de Holl...( read more)
A typical Norwegian movie. Nice and slow. Formula for a Norwegian movie: take a strange lead character that doesn't speak too much and make him walk around and meet some interesting characters. Odd Horten retires after 40 years of work , has lots of time to kill in his hands and ...( read more)
What more do you want...ho hum...Saying nothing is better than ho hum...I could say the same thing,,,but I don't.
O'Horten is a precise, deadpan drama of slapstick existentialism -- a Bent Hamer movie, in other words. full review
The thing about a deadpan comedy is, it must involve us in the lives of its characters, so we can understand why they are funny while at the same time so distant. O'Horten, a bittersweet whimsy by the... full review
Made up of meticulously constructed, deadpan scenes that turn on Keatonesque visual jokes. full review
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