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Out Stealing Horses

Original title: Ut og stjæle hester
  • 20192019
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 3m
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6.5/10
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Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Tobias Santelmann, and Danica Curcic in Out Stealing Horses (2019)
November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone.  As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbours, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realises he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up.
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A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
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    • Hans Petter Moland
    • Hans Petter Moland(screenplay)
    • Per Petterson(novel)
  • Stars
    • Stellan Skarsgård
    • Bjørn Floberg
    • Jon Ranes
    • Hans Petter Moland
    • Hans Petter Moland(screenplay)
    • Per Petterson(novel)
  • Stars
    • Stellan Skarsgård
    • Bjørn Floberg
    • Jon Ranes
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    • 11User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
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    Jon Ranes in Out Stealing Horses (2019)
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    Tobias Santelmann and Danica Curcic in Out Stealing Horses (2019)
    Danica Curcic in Out Stealing Horses (2019)
    Bjørn Floberg in Out Stealing Horses (2019)
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    Tobias Santelmann and Jon Ranes in Out Stealing Horses (2019)
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    Stellan Skarsgård
    Stellan Skarsgård
    • Trond
    Bjørn Floberg
    Bjørn Floberg
    • Lars Haug
    Jon Ranes
    • 15-year-old Trond
    Tobias Santelmann
    Tobias Santelmann
    • Trond's father
    Danica Curcic
    Danica Curcic
    • Jon's mother
    Pål Sverre Hagen
    Pål Sverre Hagen
    • Jon's father
    Gard B. Eidsvold
    Gard B. Eidsvold
    • Franz
    Sjur Vatne Brean
    Sjur Vatne Brean
    • 17-year-old Jon
    Tone Beate Mostraum
    • Trond's mother
    • (as Beate Mostraum)
    Maria Alm Norell
    Maria Alm Norell
    • Trond's daughter Ellen
    Anders Baasmo
    Anders Baasmo
    • Olav
    • (as Anders Baasmo Christiansen)
    Marie Blokhus
    Marie Blokhus
    Ane Ulimoen Øverli
    Ane Ulimoen Øverli
    • Cashier
    Thorbjørn Harr
    Thorbjørn Harr
    • Lean Man
    Jon Øigarden
    Jon Øigarden
    Sebastian Stigh
    Jan Gunnar Røise
    Jan Gunnar Røise
    • Priest
    Torjus Hopland Vollan
    • 10-year-old Lars
      • Hans Petter Moland
      • Hans Petter Moland(screenplay)
      • Per Petterson(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Tobias Santelmann, Pål Sverre Hagen and Anders Baasmo previously worked together on Kon-Tiki (2012), as Knut Haugland, Thor Heyerdahl, and Herman Watzinger respectively.
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      Lars Haug: I know who you are.

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      Vindhester
      Composed by Kåre Vestrheim

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    6/10
    Don't be bitter
    Greetings again from the darkness. Contrasts are plentiful in this film. The bleakness of winter versus the greenery of summer. The resignation of old age versus the naivety of youth. Pet Petterson's award-winning novel was released in Norway in 2003, and then in English version in 2005. Norwegian director Petter Moland tackles it with the best intentions, though the nuances prove too much for one movie. Mr. Moland is a fine director as evidenced by his excellent IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (2014) with Stellan Skarsgard and the English remake COLD PURSUIT (2019) with Liam Neeson.

    Morland and Skarsgard reunite as the actor takes on the role of the elder Trond, who we first see as he has relocated to Norway from Sweden. Through his narration, we learn Trond has lived in Sweden for 42 years, and it's a chance meeting with his new neighbor Lars (Bjorn Floberg) that triggers memories of one summer when he was 15 years old. It's now 1999, and the impending new millennium has Trond self-isolating on top of the grief and loneliness he has carried since his wife was killed in a car crash. Skarsgard is an actor who can be either sympathetic or powerful, and he brings gravitas to a character who is mostly lost at this late stage in life.

    Much of the film is spent in Trond's flashback to 1948, when he lived the summer with his father, a "practical" man, at his cabin in Norway. Young Trond is played very well by Jon Ranes in his first role. He clearly admires his father (Tobias Santelmann, KON-TIKI, 2012) and enjoys working beside him and taking rain showers alongside. Over the weeks, Trond and his father become entangled with a village family after a tragedy involving Lars (the future neighbor) when he was very young, and Lars' father and mother (Danica Curcic). What follows for Trond are the things in life that cause us to alter our view of people and the world. Lost innocence is rarely easy.

    Cinematographer Rasmus Videbaek (A ROYAL AFFAIR, 2012) captures the beauty of nature during the 1948 summer, as well as the stark white stillness of 1999 winter. Some of the look and feel and symbolism reminds of the work of Terrence Malick. The stunning Norwegian landscapes play a role for us as viewers and for Trond. There are also some quiet moments that carry weight between the elder Lars and Trond, as the missing pieces of life slowly fall into place.

    The elder Trond states his goal is "to sleep as heavily as possible without being dead", but we see part of him may have already died. Flashbacks to that summer, and even earlier during the war, combine with some awkward conversations with Lars to fill in gaps that had blurred over the years. Childhood memories from old age are often not to be trusted, but coming to grips with one's family and the past may bring peace - or it may not. Trond is an avid reader of Dickens' "David Copperfield" and there are many references throughout. He's even given life advice: "Don't be bitter", which is a worthy goal for all. It's an odd film with multiple timelines and damaged characters at different stages. It may not reach the level of Petterson's novel, but director Moland gives us plenty to mull.
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      • August 7, 2020 (United States)
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      • Jordet i Trysil, Innlandet, Norway
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      • Zentropa Entertainments
      • Film i Väst
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