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O'HORTEN
O' Horten
Synopsis
Odd Horten is an overly cautious 67-year-old man, about to retire after forty years as a train driver. It emerges that his mother was a ski jumper, but Odd himself never had the courage to try the sport. He now feels as if he has let her down by never having the courage to try new things.
Synopsis
Odd Horten is an overly cautious 67-year-old man, about to retire after forty years as a train driver. It emerges that his mother was a ski jumper, but Odd himself never had the courage to try the sport. He now feels as if he has let her down by never having the courage to try new things.
Our take
A late-career triumph for actor Baard Owe—young lover of Gertrud in Carl Dreyer’s masterwork—this droll comedy follows a train engineer’s adventures in retirement. Landing somewhere between Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati, Owe’s title character is a deadpan wonder. Fans of Roy Andersson will approve!