- 2009
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 30 m
SummaryThe moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. Horten has been forced to retire after 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. His orderly, solitary existence is a...
Directed By:Bent Hamer
Written By:Bent Hamer
O'Horten
Metascore
Generally Favorable
78
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78
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90
Enlivened with droll wit and framed with robust sensitivity, O'Horten is an amusing and entrancing personal portrait. Succinct in its visualizations and crisp in its pacing, its deferential storytelling is in sync with its Odd subject.
By Duane Byrge
FULL REVIEW 83
Director Bent Hamer ("Factotum") keeps things drily amusing throughout.
80
Strange, unpredictable, and sometimes magical.
80
The movie, on its own modest terms, satisfies greatly.
By Scott Foundas
FULL REVIEW 78
A spare and perfectly droll kinda-sorta comedy from Norwegian director Hamer.
75
The strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored in this film.
60
A quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul.
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7.2
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Production Company:
- Bulbul Films
- Pandora Filmproduktion
- ZDF/Arte
- Memento Films Production
- Arte France Cinéma
- Scanbox Entertainment
- Norsk Filmfond
- Nordisk Film & TV-Fond
- Norsk Filmutvikling
- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
- ARTE
- The Match Factory
Release Date:May 22, 2009
Duration:1 h 30 m
Rating:PG-13
Awards
Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival
• 4 Wins & 10 Nominations
Amanda Awards, Norway
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
