Oct 1 – O’Horten

The moment the train leaves the station without him, Odd Horten, an engineer forced into retirement after 40 years on a stable rail, faces a new life without printed timetables or familiar stations. The platform doesn’t feel like a safe place anymore. O’Horten’s orderly existence must give way to a future of unlikely adventures and puzzling dilemmas.

Norwegian director Bent Hamer dedicated this movie “to the memory of my mother, and all other female ski jumpers.” With his characteristically droll wit, Hamer explores the humor to be found in aging, and presents an absurdist vision with great warmth, a little melancholy, and universal appeal.

With subtle, insinuating charm, O’Horten is a character study of an eminently sane, reasonable man unsteadily navigating an increasingly insane, unreasonable world. – The Onion

A small masterpiece of poignant deadpan humor. – New York Post

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