O'Horten
Directed by:
Bent HamerScreenplay:
Bent HamerCinematography:
John Christian RosenlundComposer:
John Erik KaadaCast:
Baard Owe, Ghita Nørby, Bjørn Floberg, Nils Gaup, Gard B. Eidsvold, Andreas Cappelen, Fredrik Steen, Espen Skjønberg, Kristine Rui Slettebakken, Kai Remlov (more)Plots(1)
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 the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. (official distributor synopsis)
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A poetic story about the fact that even if you miss your last train, it doesn't mean you can't jump into an exciting unknown. Hamer's style is unrepeatable, full of static visual anecdotes, absurdly dispossessed scenes, and pure Nordic silence that says more than many novels. O'Horten has the soul of a playful poet, and it is a film about sadness, loneliness and hope born of banalities. Watching the character of a "reserved" locomotive engineer transformed into a merrily cheerful vessel of optimism and hope in a matter of days is a pleasure over pleasure. Perhaps it was my love of the north and the Nordic humor of "nothing to say and little to say", but I held my breath and had a lump in my throat as big as when I watched Kitchen Stories. A modestly wise film.
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