O'Horten (2007)

Highly Recommended

Norway/Denmark/France/Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: O' Horten

Writer/Director: Bent Hamer

Cinematographer: John Christian Rosenlund

Composer: John Erik Kaada

Cast: Bård Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg, Kai Remlov, Per Jansen, Bjarte Hjelmeland

In Hamer’s gently moving, deadpan gem, a 67-year-old retiring train driver, in the days leading up to and following his final day, somehow manages to get himself into some bizarre moonlit adventures, involving inadvertent breaking and entering, illicit midnight swims, blind-folded city driving, and 90-year-old mother pleasing ski jumps. Iain.Stott