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  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten 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 exist...

Directed By: Bent Hamer

Written By: Bent Hamer

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m

O'Horten

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten 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 exist...

Directed By: Bent Hamer

Written By: Bent Hamer

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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Enlivened with droll wit and framed with robust sensitivity, O'Horten is an amusing and entrancing personal portrait. Succinct in its visualizations and crisp in its pacing, its deferential storytelling is in sync with its Odd subject.
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Director Bent Hamer ("Factotum") keeps things drily amusing throughout.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
80
Strange, unpredictable, and sometimes magical.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
80
The movie, on its own modest terms, satisfies greatly.
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78
A spare and perfectly droll kinda-sorta comedy from Norwegian director Hamer.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
75
The strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored in this film.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
60
A quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bulbul Films, Pandora Filmproduktion, ZDF/Arte, Memento Films Production, Arte France Cinéma, Scanbox Entertainment, Norsk Filmfond, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Norsk Filmutvikling, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE, The Match Factory
Release Date May 22, 2009
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival
• 4 Wins & 10 Nominations
Amanda Awards, Norway
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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