O'Horten (2007) on Netflix
Odd Horten is a train driver set to retire after forty years on the Oslo to Bergen line. Locked out after his farewell party, he misses his last run.
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Plot summary
A picaresque tale. Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train engineer retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's disappointment in him. How should he live the rest of his life?
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about O'Horten (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bård Owe's career goes back to Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic Gertrude from 1964, yet after acting in over thirty films, O' Horten gave him his first leading role.
- The film's ski jumping theme came from Bent Hamer's own mother, who performed the sport, and the film has been described as a tribute to all female ski jumpers.
- O' Horten was Bent Hamer's fourth time at Cannes, making him one of only two Norwegians to accomplish that feat, and this time he was in a more prestigious section after earlier appearances in Directors' Fortnight.
- Bent Hamer won the Norwegian Film Critics' Award in 2008, becoming the first director to win that award three times.
