The moment the train leaves the station
without engineer ODD HORTEN (Bard Owe) aboard, he realizes
that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables
and well-known stations. Horten has been forced to retire
after 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the
platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. His
orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future
of unlikely adventures and puzzling dilemmas: will Horten
ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat?
How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled
shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded
man at the wheel? Proof positive that there is humor to be
found in aging, and we don't have to be elderly Norwegians
to identify, laugh and embrace life in all its idiosyncratic
splendor. O’HORTEN is Bent Hamer's wonderfully skewed view
of the human condition and gives us that somewhat absurdist
vision with great warmth, a little melancholy and universal
appeal.
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