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FIRST... Let us FOCUS on the Title´s content and context!

And...First order of business: The IMDb Intro Blurb on O'HORTEN: If you haven't read it...DON'T! If you have, forget about it and read my Review! The Blurb just doesn't prepare you for the tone and feel of the movie! The only thing I'll reveal about the "Storyline" occurs only 15 or 20 minutes into the movie, so no harm in that, eh?

ODD (Yes, that's his name!) has never been late nor missed his train in nearly 40 years as an engineer. He seems just a tad anxious about his soon- to-be retirement. His house-of-cards life is about to undergo a seismic shift and collapse. This is foreshadowed just a bit as things begin to spin out of control on the eve of his last scheduled trip at the helm as engineer...which cause him to.....Well.... Better You see what then ensues!!!

It's doubtful many people will agree with me on this, but the ONLY movie O'HORTEN vaguely reminds me of is 1979's BEING THERE. Both have a slightly surreal feel to them, and the lead characters (Remember Peter Sellers as Chauncey Gardiner?) do share a lot of things in common. A chain of serendipitous occurrences lead up to events that early on seemed obvious, but later, fades into the background as something just not meant to be! If an ending has a lot to do with defining a film's genre...Then please, be patient and hold-off on classifying this one until you see the end credits.

BTW, the music is delicate, haunting and provides absolutely perfect accompaniment. The photography is also superb and pleasantly stylized.

8*.....ENJOY! / DISFRUTELA!

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.

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.

In Norway, the sixty-seven year-old train machinist Odd Horten (Bård Owe) retires after forty years of service. He receives a silver locomotive from his colleagues in a dinner party and loses his last trip. After the retirement, the plain Horten seems to be lost and wanders through Oslo, where he helps Trygve Sissener (Espen Skjønberg) and they become friends. When Trygve invites him to take a ride in his car, the driver dies and Horten takes his dog Molly and his pair of skies. Horten has never worn a pair of skies and he tries for the first time. Later he travels with Molly and meets his old friend Svea (Henny Moan).

"O' Horten" is a cold film about retirement in Norway. The story is weird and the behavior of the characters is strange for a Brazilian. When the cooker is arrested in the restaurant, nobody moves from their tables. When Mr. Horten forgets his silver train at the room, his colleagues send it by mail. These cold relationships are really unusual in my tropical country. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Caro Sr. Horten"("Dear Mr. Horten")

I'm not certain if this is the first Norwegian film I've ever seen but, if it is, it's a wonderful beginning! I found the film to be utterly enchanting: Charming, quirky, eccentric, and delightful! The cinematography is flawless -- every frame was interesting to watch. The score is an absolute joy, fitting the film to perfection, yet never intruding or proclaiming itself.

I was deeply impressed by the natural, highly specific work done by the actors: They performed with great truth and honesty, saying more with a look or a gesture than they did with words.

I must confess to being something of a railroad lover -- so the inclusion of locomotives in the film was an added benefit. There is a strange dialectic between the freedom of travel and the limited mobility of trains that fits the characters and enriches the story.

So if you're the type who enjoys simple, direct, character-driven storytelling, this is the film for you. I look forward to seeing it again, and hope it will be released on DVD in the US soon!

Train drivers in the U.K aren't generally held in much esteem. In Norway, especially in Bent's O'Horten's character, they're seemingly more akin to the status of airline pilots.

Unmarried and strictly routined Odd, (Horten) has been criss-crossing Scandinavia for so long on two rails, he's forgotten what life actually is. Reaching his enforced retirement age his routine is shattered. He tries to boycott his own retirement party but, somehow gets entwined, (by accident, of course).

What follows are a series of minor mishaps, that take their natural time to develop. He then meets an eccentric; together they go a bit wild, the eccentric behaving normally (for him), O'Horten having the time of his life. Will he grow up? Surely the slightly painful-to-watch and uneasy alliance and tactics will all end in tears?

Something profound and life-changing may have happened (I don't want to spoil and depends on how you see 'it') and the after effects could mean he's simply had his 'blast-out' and quickly moved on into being a sensible pensioner, or, what I think might be the case. (I prefer mine!)

Compared to Bent's earlier 'Kitchen Stories' which is more interestingly offbeat (my review of that to follow), O'Horten will give a knowing and warming chuckle to those of Odd's age and predicament, as well as a broad appeal to the family. One that is pleasant enough, slightly different enough but one hardly to set the rail-tracks on fire.

Waited a long time for this one. Ever since Water Easy Reached - which stood out in blur of movies from TIFF 98, and the poignantly thoughtful and revealing (about Swed/Norwegian angst) Kitchen Stories. So did expectation get the best of me?

The more I thought about this, the more I like the film. Yes it has it's own pace, but everything is so well thought out. No emotional manipulations, but there are plenty of emotions in the storyline. Great opening shots for the credits, and an amazing score that seems to tell you the mood for the story, plenty of time to digest the dialogue versus the choice of actions by each of the characters.

The story revolves around Odd, a retiring train engineer, the choices he made, makes and will be making and the people he meets along the way. Kind of rebirth, resolution of regrets kind of story. Doesn' sound very controversial or exciting against any other contending films ... even for an audience award. And it is not. But I really admire ... shall we say ... the integrity behind and of this film's character and intent ??? This movie has a soul and you can feel it. Maybe it is saying nothing is too late, reflection is a good thing, being alone physically is not a bad thing when your mind is active and gentle and flexible.

Some scenes/shots reminds me of Aki Murismaki's Drifting Clouds.

Bent was there for the Q&A to explain a few things, like he did for Kitchen Stories. And you see that he is passionate, has lots to say, and stays true to the story, and the character, without being overtly dramatic. I wonder why Bent is the way he is - telling stories in the style and tone that he does; incorporating everyday touches and observatrions from his home country. And probably this film tells you why.

**** spoilers *** and apparently ski jumping is very common in Norway, even Bent has done it. And the woman in the jumping scene is a world champion.

In Norwegian director Bent Hamer's third film to be seen Stateside (following 'Kitchen Stories' and 'Factotum'), a man named Odd Horton (Baard Owe) retires after 40 years as a train conductor. His face is as wrinkled as scrunched-up parchment, but he's erect and vigorous enough. What the heck is he going to do now? Clair Denis' wonderful '35 Shots of Rum' (whose US release is coming later this year) also begins with the idea that without tracks and timetables to show him the way a railroad engineer who's put out to pasture may be particularly lost, as wage earners go, even desperate. Denis' is an ensemble film full of warmth and connectedness, but sad for the conductor. Horton, who's odd, alright, maintains a Nordic blankness we never penetrate, but -- sadly, it seemed to me -- his meanderings end happily enough. After enduring so much wry tedium one would like to have been rewarded with a little more pessimism.

Because he's a solitary who keeps a bird in a cage, which he covers when he goes out, Horton gives a momentary hint of Alain Delon's lonely samurai in Jean-Pierre Melville's classic noir. One may also contrast Horton's dry world with the garish and curiously tonic pessimism of Islandic helmer Aki Kaurismaki, who concluded his "Loser Trilogy" with 'The Lights of the City,' which records the downfall of a pathetic loser who becomes a would-be gangster, an utterly failed samurai. Horton, perhaps unwittingly, flouts convention and even breaks the law. When he loses the way back to his retirement celebration he winds up breaking and entering, he flees from lesbian lovers who interrupt his midnight swim wearing the high heels of one of them, and he abandons a corpse in a car. To please his near-catatonic aged mother, whose only response when he visits her is a smile he does not see when he refers in leaving to her youthful prowess as a ski jumper, he steals a pair of old skis and for the first time in his life does some late night ski-jumping of his own. Earlier, he consents to ride with a very odd man (odder than Odd) who claims he knows how to drive blindfolded, again at night, in a classic Citroen DS.

Some of the dry jokes seem gratuitous. Odd habitually dines alone in an old-fashioned restaurant. The cook is taken out in handcuffs by police and the waiter, a wrinkled-faced Buser Keaton type just like Horton, announces to the room, "Of course don't expect me to take any more food orders." What are we to make of the old man who keeps coming back into the tobacco shop to ask for matches, because he keeps losing them? At moments that might be stressful Horton, like Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, takes out his pipe and lights it, or taps it on the bottom of his shoe. Bur Oslo is a whole galaxy away from the South of France.

Hamer's film takes a long time to get started. In fact it's hard to say when it does begin. Many tedious long shots of trains, tracks, and snow have to be got through before Horton finally loses his way, and something begins to happen. Maybe it's when he oversleeps in a little boy's room and just misses his last train run, that we know his new life, or a transition into it, has finally begun. His decision to sell a boat leads to a long series of wild goose chases at an exaggeratedly Kafkaesque airport where he is repeatedly searched and run through scanners. Is Hamer comparing modes of transport, and suggesting the more old-fashioned ones are preferable? The railroad will work for 40 years, a Citroen is good for a deadly ride, a streetcar will do in a pinch, a boat was once okay -- but airplanes, never, ever? All of a sudden his adventures and misadventures are over, Horton's doffed his trainman's uniform, donned comfortable-looking civvies, and there he is, still in a train station, but settling down to a good life (for the first time, perhaps?) with a good woman. He seems to have replaced that spooky chirping bird with the dead man's cuddly dog.

Hamer's episodic structure here might owe something to Swedish director Roy Andersson, whose 'You, the Living' I saw in Rome two years ago after its release in the film festival there. Andersson's elaborate set pieces, triumphant celebrations of gloom, sparkle and charm, however, while Hamer's mises-en-scene are relatively flat and conventional. A film like 'O'Horton' must repay patience; it is unwatchable without it. We are never allowed into the mind or emotions of its protagonist. The wry humor, the missteps that lead to reassuring choices, hardly justify the slow, uneven pacing. 'Factotum' remains Hamer's best effort so far. It doesn't go anywhere, but neither do the books of Charles Bukowski, from which it's drawn.

Odd Horton is dependable and cautious Norwegian train engineer facing retirement. His fellow train workers throw him a big retirement party. He gets locked out of his own party and tries to sneak back in climbing up a scaffolding. He finds a boy who asks him to stay while he sleeps. He oversleeps and misses his train. It's a series of disjointed rambling situations leading him to reconsider his life. As a character, Odd Horten lacks any charisma. It starts off slowly. When it turns strange, the movie lost me. I would rather it go crazy. I couldn't really follow him down the rabbit hole. The movie is well-made and it aims to be profound. I don't hate the attempt but it's not for me.

This is a film unique and intriguing in its own special way. The apparent lack of emotions of the story indeed tells of so many emotions and speaks so many words unspoken. The interactions of Odd with other eccentric people on his retirement night indeed reflect his inner feelings of eagerness for a new start on one hand and his unpreparedness for loss of his routines on the other. The human interactions in the film are portrayed in such a frank and pure way that the whole film is filled with a subtle warmness despite the snowy streets of Oslo. By breaking away from the "rails" that had rooted him to the ground for so many years and by embarking on a new stage of life, Odd finally has the time to redeem, rediscover, and to reappraise, and to finally live a life without pre-set rails and tracks. A very warm, touching and enchanting piece of work which is at times surreal and at all times unique. It may be short of words sometimes but is never short of a uniquely human touch.

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.

O'HORTEN comes from Bent Hamer, the director of KITCHEN STORIES and FACTOTUM. I enjoyed both of those a great deal yet - story-wise - they had very little in common. One is about a project in Scandinavia to watch people in their kitchens 24 hours a day and determine how kitchens can be redesigned. One is about Charles Bukowski's life, focusing more on the comedic aspects but with a great sting in the tail. Given the difference in those two movies, don't bat an eyelid when you find out Hamer's latest is about a retiring train driver from Norway called Odd Horten.

The movie starts with Horten driving the train swiftly through tunnels in a snow-filled landscape. He smokes his pipe and shows little emotion. The camera follows the train in and out of the tunnels, with that satisfying sound train-users will know. Horton barely speaks... in fact he barely speaks for the first half of the movie. He is given a retirement party and seems thoroughly embarrassed by it... especially by the little brass train statue and extended "choo-choo" salute that the other drivers give him. When the party moves to a guy's flat, Horten decides he needs some tobacco for his pipe. By the time he's returned, the door is accidentally locked and he needs to climb in through another window and gets tied up talking to a little kid. It's a strange scene, but a good introduction to the mood of the rest of the movie. Horten becomes caught up with the kid's need for someone to talk to. Much as he wants to get away, Horten eventually is drawn in due to politeness and, later, interest.

Horten is a guy married to his job. Free of that, he's at a loose end and forced to figure out what he wants to do. Hell, life's train has passed him by... hence all those shots at the start of the movie. But, and this is the real strength of the movie, this is never bashed over the viewer's head. It comes across - while being consistently interesting throughout - as just a man getting up to interesting adventures. It never feels self-conscious. The movie ties together at the end, but you're not aware of it building in that direction.

O'HORTEN reminded me of Jim Jarmusch, who gets this sort of realist movie - generally - spot on. Little happens in STRANGERS IN PARADISE and DOWN BY LAW, but there are fascinating characters and situations. They're often wacky, but that wackiness is played straight and leads to some hilarious - and touching - moments. There's that moment in GHOST DOG when Ghost Dog's French pal takes him up to a roof and they look at a man building a boat on the top of an apartment block. The boat could never be lifted off there, the guy is just doing it for the satisfaction of knowing he can do it. Is that happening everywhere? No. But maybe there's someone doing it somewhere, and why not have it in a movie? Life is as dull as the scenes you pick.

Odd Horten meets a bunch of interesting people and gets caught in interesting situations. Horten goes for a late night skinny dip in his local pool, but is disturbed by a couple of lesbians. Cue a hasty escape where the only shoes Horten can find are high heels. He even meets a guy who has driven blindfolded - perfectly - through city streets across the world. Would you believe the guy? Well, what better way to find out than going out on a trip with him? And Horten become increasingly inclined to finally see life rather than letting it pass him by.

In the wrong hands, it could all come across as silly. But, after the initial surprise, it doesn't. In one scene, Horten goes to visit his very elderly mother. She sits silently in her chair - lost in her own world. At one stage, he mentions her ski-jumping skis in the corner of her room and a smile flickers across her face. She always wanted to be a ski-jumper as a kid, and it's only at that moment that the senility breaks and the woman comes through. And that's just one of a number of touching scenes in the movie. And, as through much of the movie, that mood is emphasised by some beautiful camera-work and scenes. They're frozen landscapes, with snow swirling in the wind.

Baard Owe is wonderful in the lead role. It's always hard to judge the acting in foreign-language films because we can't tell if they're pronouncing the dialogue well. Apparently Bergman was never popular in Sweden until after his death, partly for that reason. English speakers often give a free pass to foreign movies, and often have to presume the acting is good. Well, Baard Owe is genuinely great in this one, and you can judge it fully because it's a largely silent performance. He runs a series of emotions with the slightest of movements, depicting a seemingly distant man with something simmering under the surface. The real Baard Owe is known for being an eccentric nut-job who sometimes wears tailored, slightly electrified suits that give you a shock if you touch him. So Owe really had to get in character for Odd Horten.

O'HORTEN is a quiet movie. These types of movies are often called "gentle" but I think this packs more of a punch than that. And I think that's the big connection between all three of Bent Hamer's movies. They meander along, seemingly without direction, but they get somewhere great. If you're up for that kind of movie, this will fit the bill almost perfectly. Crack open a beer or some wine, and sink into it.

Watched this in the summer and was bored by it. Lets try again.

Odd Horten. A 67 year old pipe smoking train driver about to retire. Lights up pipe. Taciturn. Sucks on pipe. Reticent. Puffs on pipe. Expressionless.

Has he got a daft sense of humour? No. A wacky hobby? No. A naughty sex life? No. Has he got any inner life at all? Er, no.

The lighting and puffing of this pipe. Is about as interesting as Odd is going to get.

The acting is deliberately doggedly dull. The actor is doggedly dull too. Too dull. Distinct lack of oddness.

I need some quirk. Eventually some quirk comes. A dry kind of daftness.

"All my friends jumped but not me. And now its too late" laments Odd. "It seems most things come too late in life".

Well, its never too late. To make that (ski) jump.

He jumped (of course) Maybe I've only watched this cus its a Norwegian film. And it's December. And i needed to see some lonely snowy winter.

What was this film? A tribute to the Everyman – or in this case a Norwegian Nobody.

It fell as flat as Bent Hamers other film, that misfiring dud Kitchen Stories.

A lot of pipe smoking in that too.

This was among my favorites of films I saw at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival. From Norwegian writer/director Bent Hamer this a wonderfully quirky and surrealistic dry comedy. Odd Horten (Baard Owe) is a button down, dedicated locomotive conductor who at the age of 67 is making his final run before retirement. He is unmarried but has an opportunity for romance and a possible wife to share his retirement years with but he is unsure of how to adapt to retirement after a long dedicated career that took him from coal trains to super speed electric rail travel. You meet a delightful variety of characters in this character driven film. Like his name of Odd, he is an odd eccentric, always very proper in dress and mannerism and he constantly finds himself in odd situations. We also meet his aging nursing home bound mother, a special lady friend, his fellow locomotive drivers who throw a retirement party for him, a tavern keeper, the wife of his tobacconist, a man who wants to buy his boat and many more throughout this strangely wonderful film. Veteran actor Espen Skjonberg plays a retired diplomat who befriends Odd in the middle of the night. Skjonberg is great in this role and it's a great role in itself that leads to a series of the some of the film's more memorable scenes. Owe is fantastic in a role in which he basically has very little to do with very little range of emotion but it works. This film is like some Norwegian acid trip. I would give it an 9.0 out of 10 and recommend it.

What I most liked about "O'Horten" was the quiet likability of all the characters, and from the most staid to the most eccentric, characters they all are. It's almost as if Norwegians come from a different place than the rest of us.

We've seen lots of Swedish films over the decades, but these stoic Norwegians make the Swedes seem positively Mediterranean in comparison! The emotions expressed quietly - very quietly - in the film include love, respect, loyalty, and non-judgmental relationships between strangers. What's more, it's quietly funny! Of course, there is a bigger point, too; i.e., It's never too late.

Baard Owe, perfectly cast as Odd Horten, is wonderfully supported by a cast that includes Espen Skjonberg and Henny Moan. A quiet, captivating film.

I have watched Norwegian movies and up to now have greatly enjoyed every single one. These excellent films include: The Wave, The Quake, In Order of Disappearance, Kon Tiki, and Hidden. This movie, O' Horten, is dull. It isn't quirky. It's just, as the Norwegian's might say, "kjedelig." There is nothing interesting about O'Horten. His job on the railroad is not to blame for his boring existence. He is. And the movie held nothing above or beyond who he is.

In trying to describe this film, the words "droll" and "laconic" keep coming to mind, along with the thought of resurrecting Jacques Tati where there's lots of snow. The gags are so innocent and harmless they often seem downright "normal" ...but anybody pulling this stuff in real life risks serious interviewing by the local police.

After listening to Garrison Keillor talk about the Norwegian bachelor farmers around Lake Wobegon for years, this feels very familiar. Odd Horten is what I've always imagined a Norwegian bachelor to be. (Somebody tell Mr. Keillor Odd is a railroad engineer, not a farmer.) Watching this film is like having one of those characters I've heard about spring to life, with a slightly warped sense of humor, a bit of existential angst, a bemused dismissal of social convention, and obvious enjoyment of simple pleasures, all tied up tight in a package that doesn't show much on the outside.

Whoever runs that algorithm over at Netflix must be a genius. Despite the very high critical acclaim this film received in America, Netflix predicted that I would not like this movie at all. This puzzled me, and because of the high ratings, I ignored Netflix, and saw the film anyway (not on Netflix, by the way). Anyway, about 10 minutes in, I knew that I should have listened to Netflix. The film was painfully slow, with not much going on. The humor is quirky, but to me, not very funny. I know by definition on these IMDb "User Review" pages that most people who are going to comment are going to like the film in question. Who's going to take the time to comment on a film that they hated? Well, I guess I'm one of those people.

Hey gang! If you like your movie entertainment with non stop car chases,lots & lots of explosions (stuff being blown up),big breasted blonde's being stereotyped as the usual airheads,lots of toilet humour, not to mention everybody's favourite "F" word being dropped every line of dialog...then by all means, stay away from 'O'Horten'. That aside, this is a very well written,directed & acted film from Norway that is a gentle fable of getting your groove later in life. Odd Horten is a railway conductor who has been driving the trains in Norway for some forty years now,and is one excursion away from retiring & living the good life (whatever that is). After missing out on an evening of merriment with his former co-workers,due to the fact that he ended up locked out of the flat where the party was to take place. From then on, life becomes a series of scenes (some funny,some not so,some down right surreal),that is supposed to bring Odd out of the forty year stupor that his regimented life was. All of this heads for an ending that will take you by surprise (if you think all Scandanavian films are brooding,moody,introspective meditations on existentialism,guess again). Bent Hamer (who directed the very funny & very tongue in cheek 'Kitchen Stories'from a few years back),writes & directs from his original screenplay of a man who is just learning life is not just all about work,work & more work. Baard Owe (star of many a Norwegian film for both the cinema,as well as Norwegian television)takes on the role of Odd Horten,played as deadpan as one can. The rest of the cast are made up of top notch Norwegian actors who do what they do best. This is a film that will charm the birdies out of the trees. Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for flashes of brief nudity & some mild adult content.

we are moving in a great direction on film....this one confirms it. trains in Europe are of much interest.the weather adds to it. the coming of age comes across. true characters in all cast. the music was perfect.a soundtrack to own. i could breath while watching this movie. the smoke shop scene was of my taste. the dog was interesting as well. it takes you away the whole movie. first movie of this actor i believe i have ever seen.or was he in the kitchen movie as well?....yes Bent Hamer did it again.few people can appreciate this kind of films..i am one of them.i would buy to my collection.to watch every once in a while.

This film got me the same way that The Gods Must Be Crazy did, in that I watched a few minutes of it one day on the Cable channel, but turned off the television for something meaningful. Was I WRONG! As with The Gods Must Be Crazy, one day I watched it all the way through, and found it to be truly enjoyable.

About this film, O'Horten, I have read other reviews and most of them got what I did out of it, oh, some things were different, but, something were also the same.

As a fine watch is engineered and made to exacting standards, so was this film. Mr. Owe, as well as the others, did as he was hired to do, and he did it so very well.

This film has a message in it that a lot of people today need to know about, it will do them some good.

I remember thinking as Odd went into the restaurant and sat down, " there ARE still places out of the way like that where people function daily and contribute to the actions that must take place for things to go where they are meant to go."

One warning, if you let it, this film will take you into it, and you will go from one scene to another as Odd does. Experience the music, atmosphere, the implied things, and all the other good that radiates from this film.

I will very gladly watch this movie over and over again, anytime that I know it is being shown.

To those who have read this review, I say, rent it if you can, or catch it on Sat or Cable, but do watch it.

My thanks to all involved in the making of the film, Mr. Owe, you did a very fine job Sir.