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O'Horten
2007 90m PG-13
Drama
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Comedy
6.7
90%
63%
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A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence: the evening of his retirement.
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Directed By
Bent Hamer
Written By
Bent Hamer
Studio
Bulbul Films
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Cast of O'Horten
Baard Owe
Odd Horten
Espen Skjønberg
Trygve Sissener
Ghita Nørby
Mrs. Thøgersen
Bjørn Floberg
Flo
Henny Moan
Svea
Bjarte Hjelmeland
Conductor
Kai Remlov
Steiner Sissener
Trond-Viggo Torgersen
Opsahl
Per Jansen
Train Driver
O'Horten Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
This yarn about a train conductor whose life goes off track is Nordic to its bones: efficient, humane and droll in small measures.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Thanks to the consistent deadpan tone that Hamer and Owe establish, it's oddly satisfying.
Detroit News
Tom Long
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Not quite the absurdist gem that was Bent Hamer's 2004 release, Kitchen Stories, the Norwegian director's O'Horten is nonetheless a deadpan delight.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
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.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The whimsy is never overplayed. The peculiar isn't teased at any character's expense.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
O'Horten is a precise, deadpan drama of slapstick existentialism -- a Bent Hamer movie, in other words.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Powered by lush cinematography, a moody score, and Owe's subtly majestic lead performance, O'Horten oscillates confidently between the mundane and the rapturously beautiful.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A small masterpiece of poignant deadpan humor.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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 Norwegian director Bent Hamer, finds that effortless.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Jack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in About Schmidt would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A spare and perfectly droll kinda-sorta comedy.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
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
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Bent Hamer has proved himself an apt pupil of such deadpan comic filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki.
Washington Post
Dan Zak
Depending on your patience for oddball mood pieces, you will either sleep through O' Horten or be oddly captivated. Either way, it'll be like dreaming.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
A quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Made up of meticulously constructed, deadpan scenes that turn on Keatonesque visual jokes.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Nothing about this film even hints at being rushed -- if there were a cinematic equivalent to the Slow Food movement, this would fit right in -- but that doesn't stop it from being all that you want it to be.
New York Press
Simon Abrams
Events unfold at an unfathomably cool pace, making Horten a comfortably numb cipher.
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