The Norwegian coming-of-age drama "Out Stealing Horses" is very Scandinavian. Based on Per Petterson's acclaimed novel, it's the kind of movie that starts with two old men exchanging pleasantries, like "there are wolves in the forest," just outside of an isolated cabin during a snow storm (or, according to contemporary Norwegian cinema: Thursday). Out Stealing Horses Review: A Visually Stunning Coming of Age Drama.
A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past. A new film starring Skarsgard and directed by Hans Petter Moland. "Out Stealing Horses" is a foreign film based on a book with the same name. Out Stealing Horses doesn't have much of a plot, but I didn't mind it in the least.
Petterson's writing, while relatively unadorned, managed to conjure vivid images of the landscape, the seasons, the rural and the city environments. Film Review: 'Out Stealing Horses' Hans Petter Moland's adaptation of the international Norwegian bestseller is sweeping and elegiac, albeit a little over-filled. An unexpected encounter forces a bereaved widower to remember a fateful summer with his father. Adapted from the prizewinning novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses is a deeply spiritual, beautifully shot coming of age drama. It examines how tragic events irreparably. The elderly Trond (Stellan Skarsgård) is living in rural Norway.
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A recent widower fresh from his native Sweden, he's now content to drink heavily and sleep even harder. Out Stealing Horses Is A Lyrical, Earnest, And Heartbreaking Trek Down Memory Lane Overflowing with internal and external conflict (a family tragedy, a wobbly father-son relationship, an illicit sensual desire, grief, and loss), Hans Petter Moland's Out Stealing Horses is a gently-paced, exceptionally-written, sensory experience. The film won the silver bear in The Berlin International film Festival.
Film review of "Out Stealing Horses" starring Stellan Skarsgård, Tobias Santelmann & Anders Baasmo Christiansen on NextBestPicture.com Hans Petter Moland's Out Stealing Horses (adapted by the director from the novel by Per Petterson) is a pastoral coming of age story. Therefore, it's light on the superficial whizbangery you might see described as "spectacle." But Moland is a muscular, graceful filmmaker who thrives at cinematic touches-like a truck barreling down a wintry rural road with walls of snow on either side. Watching the film is an experience like reading a great book — events unfold gradually and with poignant imagery and sharply drawn characters. Out Stealing Horses succeeds in marking the bond between father and son, but loses direction in its form. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review.