O'Horten (Bent Hamer, 2007)

On the day of his retirement after 40 years of service, train driver Odd Horten gets waylaid on the way to his leaving do and goes through a series of whimsical encounters in the dead of the Oslo winter night, leading him to reevaluate his life and what he has left undone through overprudence. It's a slight story, but gently told and the stolid and perpetually bemused Horten makes a likable protagonist, a variant of Monsieur Hulot without the anarchic selfishness.

5/10