O' Horten

O'Horten (2007)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (85 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (21,934 ratings)

A septuagenarian taking his penultimate voyage from Oslo to Bergen begins to mentally prepare for his final trip, but finds that sometimes things don't turn out as expected when he misses the last departure for the first time in 40 years. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Bent Hamer
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 26, 2007 Wide
Sony Pictures Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    It's a film whose pleasures come slowly, as we, like the title character, discover the joys he's missed. Best of all, we, like Odd the Norwegian bachelor, figure out it is never too late to start living.

  • Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com

    Hamer creates a quirky, beguiling, and very funny mood piece that reflects on age, adventure, uncertainty, and humanity. Owe gives the character of Horten an off-center dignity that will suggest comparisons to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton

  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

    The whimsy is never overplayed. The peculiar isn't teased at any character's expense.

  • John Hartl, Seattle Times

    Thanks to the consistent deadpan tone that Hamer and Owe establish, it's oddly satisfying.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    Pointedly strange and whimsical, O'Horten mixes the surreal with the mundane in its depiction of the retirement and eventual rebirth of a train engineer.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Alexis N


    I thought it would be a funny little story about a guy having a hard time settling in to retirement. But not so much. It wasn't funny, aside from one scene with an adorable little boy and for the most part it was boring. It had the potential, it just let me down in a really slow,… More

  • Gordon A


    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.

  • Ross C


    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.

  • Walter M


    "O'Horten" is an odd little movie about an unassuming man named Odd(Baard Owe). Living alone, the only person he feels a connection to is his mother(Kari Loland). Turning 67, he is retiring from his job as a railway engineer. His plan is to fly back after his last… More

  • Mark A


    Off-beat tale that moves very slowly. Odd Horten (Baard Owe) is forced into retirement from his long-time job as a passenger train engineer and finds a host of small adventures to fill his days and nights. He seems to operate without any clear sense of what he wants to do with the… More

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