Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

tao902 After 40 years working on the Norwegian railway Odd Horten is due to retire. His job has been his time and he is unsure what to do with his free time after leading such a conventional life. However, on the evening of his retirement party his life starts to become full of surprises and far less predictable.He finds himself falling into amusing, unconventional, bizarre and awkward situations. His new life becomes filled with little adventures. Just as he was wondering what to do with his future after 40 years of routine were coming to an end, his eyes are opened to the variety of lives around him.A slow, low key, dry and entertaining comedy.

Peter Brooks I think the first thing to note about this engrossing story is that you'll almost certainly have to watch the film twice in order to get close to the full picture. Things that don't make sense the first time around suddenly take on more meaning the second time.It's like a chef's specialty dish in which the flavours are so subtle that if you try to wolf the food down you'll miss everything (as clearly one reviewer has). It has to be savoured to get the best from it. With food you can do that - hold it on your palate as the flavours work their way through to your senses; with visual storytelling you have to go through the story more than once to get the same effect.The second thing to note is that this is a character study of a classic avoidant personality. Nothing too severe, but just enough to make a man appear to be buttoned down (as a former pipe smoker, I can attest that if you're a neat freak you won't touch a pipe) as he appears to meander through his life, having things happen *to* him rather than making them happen. Until the end scenes Horten is an observer of his own existence rather than an active participant in it.His tendency to avoid certain situations, to be backward in coming forward, to avoid the limelight, is not set in stone, though. There are times when he acts against character - for example, when he climbs the scaffolding as he tries to attend a continuation of his retirement party at another engineer's apartment, since the apartment building's front door will not open when he keys in the correct access code.His interaction with the young Nordahl (if I'm not mistaken, the two young lads in the apartment scene are played by Bent Hamer's relatives - possibly grandsons?) steps gingerly around the edge of what could otherwise have been a potentially very unpleasant situation had it been discovered by the parents - an elderly stranger in a bedroom with two young boys. These days one immediately jumps to a negative interpretation of the scene, sadly.The movie has a dream-like quality, peppered with inexplicable events and people that give it just enough meat on the bone to make you go "Huh?" at fairly regular intervals.Little things like the arrest of the chef by undercover police officers, the lesbian swimming pool attendants who frolic once the place is closed, the loss of Odd's shoes in the same place so that he ends up wearing a pair of red high-heeled boots (presumably belonging to one of the attendants; one assumes that they discovered his shoes and placed them in Lost & Found), the customer at the tobacconist's who repeatedly returns because he keeps losing his matches (through the window at one point you see him fall outside the shop, offering at least one plausible explanation as to why he keeps losing them), even the gentleman sliding down a sloping street on his rear, still clutching his briefcase, as the freezing rain coating every surface claims another victim.The film is a mosaic of such odd vignettes - some of which, as others have mentioned, are worth watching alone, such as the trials Odd undergoes in order to locate his friend Flo. How many of us have had to go through a rectal exam in order to see a pal? The neat twist involving the schizophrenic inventor was a very nice touch. Nothing too dramatic (such as the eye-gouging in the French classic, Betty Blue (aka 37°2 le matin)) but just enough to provide a reason for irrational behaviour that allows Odd to take another step or two towards what for him is almost certainly the light at the end of his own personal tunnel.The elderly lady he visits in the nursing home - his mother, Vera - appears to have mild dementia, and this may be a factor that plays into Odd's subsequent decisions when he reaches fork after fork in the road unfolding ahead of him. His decision to make a jump on stolen skis (in the dark yet) almost certainly stems from the sudden realisation that he may reach a point in his life where he too can only sit in silence looking out of a window in a nursing home, so now might be a good time to do the things he has not dared to for the best part of his 67 years.All in all a very enjoyable story, with excellent, first rate acting by everyone involved. It takes more skill IMHO to impart the subtler emotions than it does to create the never-ending wham-bam-shoot-em-up-chase-em-down-screaming-and-yelling scenes that fill today's action/adventures (not that I don't enjoy those too).This is one that I will definitely be adding to my home collection if I can. Godt gjort, Bent!

lastliberal You could excel in your job like Odd Horton, but what if, like him, you defined your life by what you didn't do. He never ski jumped, and now it is too late. He is 67 and has to retire from being a railroad engineer, and doesn't know what to do with himself.He always stayed with Fru Thøgersen (Ghita Nørby) when he ended his run waiting to go back to Oslo. It never occurs to him that he can visit without a reason now.When he goes on a ride with Dr. Sissener (Espen Skjønberg), and he dies behind the wheel, he just takes the dog and goes home. He doesn't show any emotion. He doesn't have any attachments except to his mother (Bjørn Floberg), who is in a home.The score is magnificent, and the cinematography is excellent. Skjønberg is a real delight.I have to say that there are some strange characters in Norway, if this film is to be believed.It has a surprise, but happy ending, as Odd finally takes the leap and finds that life truly is worth living.

richard_sleboe Rhapsodic. Anti-climactic. Deadpan. Superbly lit, shot, and cut. Writer-director-producer Bent Hamer's unique blend of vision and attention to detail makes sure that everything fits in this gem of an art-house movie. It's uneventful and unprecedented at the same time. In the process of telling the story of Odd Horten's retirement, Bent Hamer paints an affectionate portrait of his quiet hero. We never know what's really going on in Odd Horten's mind, but we learn a great deal about him just from watching him go about his daily routine during his final days as an award-winning locomotive driver on the Oslo-Bergen express. Odd is a loving son, an early riser, a drinker of black coffee, a pipe smoker, a boat owner, a late-night sauna-goer. Late one night, on his way home, he meets Trygve, a schizophrenic inventor who likes to drive his Citroen with his eyes closed. What Trygve says of his brother is also true for Odd: He does things in his own way. The segment about Odd's exhausting attempt to pay a visit to his friend Flo, an airport worker, alone is worth the ticket. Great instrumental score by John Erik Kaada. Not for everyone, but if you like it odd, Odd is your man.