O'HORTEN

**Ends Thursday, July 16th**

"So wonderful ... something to be cherished ... luminous and deliciously funny." - Kenneth Turan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

"I was grateful for every unexpected moment of deadpan charm." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"O'HORTEN is a precise, deadpan drama of slapstick existentialism -- a Bent Hamer movie, in other words. Each scene is a miniature of ultra-dry humanist comedy." - Ty Burr, THE BOSTON GLOBE

"Norwegian writer/director Bent Hamer's fifth feature, the charming comedy O'HORTEN, returns to the domestic landscapes, offbeat humanism and stylistic quirks of his earlier work. This bittersweet, episodic tale of an ultra-dedicated locomotive engineer uneasily transitioning into retirement ... is a warm and gently humorous delight." - Alissa Simon, VARIETY

The moment the train leaves the station without longtime engineer Odd Horten (Bard Owe) aboard, he realizes that the path ahead of him 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 attempt a dangerous ride down a giant ski slope? Why is he sneaking into strangers' homes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? And perhaps most importantly, will he find a new chapter in his life even though everyone around him thinks his book is already written? This charmingly low-key comedy is proof positive that there is humor to be found in aging, and that we don't have to be elderly Norwegians to identify, laugh and embrace life in all its idiosyncratic splendor.
O’HORTEN is writer/director Bent Hamer's (Factotum, Kitchen Stories) wonderfully skewed view of the human condition, and he serves up that somewhat absurdist vision with great warmth, a little melancholy, a lot of offbeat humor and a generous dose of universal appeal.

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