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Member Movie Reviews K. K. (GAMER) Reviewed on 12/17/2023... This Norwegian flick had its moments but was a bit slow and boring! Has a high rating so maybe Amazon resalers or others found it quite entertaining! Rose H. from LOUISVILLE, KY Reviewed on 1/27/2012... Delightfully surprising. At first glance you're confronted with a man ruled by train schedules and meticulous habits. However, glimpses of a sometimes whimsical and once adventurous man - which we as the audience are apparently only allowed to see - makes it all the more fun and unpredictable when he's confronted by a series of unscheduled stops. 1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful. DAVID T. (Dave66) from DUNKIRK, IN Reviewed on 1/27/2012... Odd Horten is a neat, meticulous, pipe-smoking train conductor, winding up 40 years of service for the Norwegian railways. O'Horten poses the following question: When a man's life has been determined by timetables and clearly-defined journeys along narrow tracks, how does he spend his free hours? Director Bent Hamer provides the answer in this droll comedy, which follows Odd Horten about his final work shifts and then into the uncertain world of retirement. Scandinavian comedies tend toward the deadpan and the melancholic, and Hamer (whose Kitchen Stories was a similarly wonderful exercise) clearly likes working in that vein. It helps that lead actor Baard Owe perfectly fits this style: if Odd Horten is ever troubled or excited by much, it rarely registers across Owe's leathery, imperturbable face. Horten meets the dilemma of buying a new pipe with the same placid curiosity he brings to meeting a stranger who invites him to his home and proposes they test the stranger's theory that he can drive a car with his eyes closed. Why not? Hamer's poker-faced approach is especially useful because it disguises an old-fashioned story of a regimented man waking up to flexibility in the winter of his life, a possibly sentimental theme given a brisk treatment. Odd Horten wouldn't have it any other way. 0 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
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