O' HortenDirector:Bent Hamer
Writer:Bent Hamer (writer)
Writer:Bent Hamer (writer)
Distributor: Sony Classics
Release Date: May 22, 2009, 26 December 2007 (Norway)
Release Date: May 22, 2009, 26 December 2007 (Norway)
Saw this movie last week in WGA. The Security Guard complained it was like a snail. But again, his 3 year old son complained Race to the Witch Mountain was too slow. Quite a few walk-outs. It's a wonderful story. Just not American.
The hero's name is Odd. The movie is as odd as his name. It starts slowly, almost depressing. The story follows its own rhythm, its own way, has an amazing uplift ending. Odd, an ordinary, quiet, submissive man becomes the stranger of his own life. Things get weirder and weirder around him. Then suddenly he sees the light, so do we.
It’s like a little ballad. No crisis every five minutes. There is very little plot. Seems like bits of business. But it is extremely focused and powerful in its own quiet and mild way. It follows the dramatic need of one man at the turning point of his life, and stays on the track all the way through. The movie opens up a world, invites the audience in to share the hero’s journey.
The hero's name is Odd. The movie is as odd as his name. It starts slowly, almost depressing. The story follows its own rhythm, its own way, has an amazing uplift ending. Odd, an ordinary, quiet, submissive man becomes the stranger of his own life. Things get weirder and weirder around him. Then suddenly he sees the light, so do we.
It’s like a little ballad. No crisis every five minutes. There is very little plot. Seems like bits of business. But it is extremely focused and powerful in its own quiet and mild way. It follows the dramatic need of one man at the turning point of his life, and stays on the track all the way through. The movie opens up a world, invites the audience in to share the hero’s journey.
A week has gone by, and I’m still thinking about this movie, while Star Trek is 80% gone.
There's a review on the LA Times.
There's a review on the LA Times.
