In years to come, I would not be surprised if this droll Norwegian comedy is hailed as a minimalist masterpiece.

| Feb 3, 2018

"O'Horten" only really works when Odd encounters the assorted oddballs; elsewhere the film travels a bit too light.

| Oct 7, 2015

Cinema as a mass-manufactured snow globe.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 16, 2011

It entertains from start to finish and tells a story that is not just fun but in its inimitably gentle way has something to teach us all as well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2011

If you can settle into [Baard Owe's] playful deadpan rhythms, a bittersweetly funny, existential mystery -- or call it a modest adventure, if that's not too oxymoronic -- awaits.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 17, 2009

O'Horten won't be for everyone, but if you enjoy character-driven films that also treat the landscape as a character, this one has a certain charm and appeal.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 13, 2009

O' Horten moves slowly, sometimes excruciatingly so, but its thematic center is strong: How do you run out the clock of life?

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 18, 2009

...a fable that relies less on fantastical transport than the defrosting of cool faculties; less on the titillation of the senses than the thawing of frozen hearts.

| Original Score: 88/100 | Sep 9, 2009

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

| Aug 23, 2009

The decidedly Nordic -- though not at all glacial -- O'Horten is a mixture of sweetness and deadpan that proves the Kaurismki/Andersson school of filmmaking still has new delights in store.

| Aug 16, 2009

As an old man, Horten is a rare movie hero, but the director reminds us that other things are more ancient; in one scene, Horten hefts a meteorite that predates the sun, and in another scene, Strindberg is quoted: 'In due time, even the stars must fall.'

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2009

It's not conventional at all.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2009

A spare and perfectly droll kinda-sorta comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2009

Episodic ... (but) reflective of life and the fluidity with which it passes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2009

This unremarkable fellow finds himself in some strange circumstances, thanks to the imagination of writer/director Bent Hamer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2009

The whimsy is never overplayed. The peculiar isn't teased at any character's expense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2009

This yarn about a train conductor whose life goes off track is Nordic to its bones: efficient, humane and droll in small measures.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2009

Director Bent Hamer keeps things drily amusing throughout.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 19, 2009

Thanks to the consistent deadpan tone that Hamer and Owe establish, it's oddly satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2009

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.

| Original Score: B | Jun 19, 2009