Out Stealing Horses

This adaptation of Per Petterson's book and Norwegian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards is breathtaking to behold but the aged widower's anamnesis of the unquiet summer he spent with his father in the woods and a neighbour family when he was fifteen is weight as a horse plodding.

I enjoyed the story but overall it was a slow, dull movie.

I didn't read the book. Instead, I've watched a lot of American movies and a few made by Koreans and Germans. This is a damn good movie. Introspective, layered and wonderful to have it wash over you. Why more movies like this aren't available in the US, I haven't a clue. Acting superb, settings immense. Franz I will remember. Almost want to live in Norway now. Please show us more of this.

Perhaps because I watched it just after finishing the book, it just wasn't as good. I don't mean the old "not as good as the book". It's just... so much of the beauty in the story was in the poetic way it was written. The movie was beautifully made, with wonderful cinematography, sound editing, soundtrack, acting... but the story just isn't as touching when told on cameras. Anyway, I prefer to keep the images I got from the book. But it's a good movie.