Official Australian release date: 21/8/14. Viewed: 26/8/14.
Director: Felix Herngren
Actors: Robert Gustafsson, Mia Skäringer, Johan Rheborg, Alan Ford
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Rating: M
The ridiculously-long-winded title ‘The
100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared’ thankfully
does not represent the film – it’s a simple fish-out-of-water comedy, that just
happens to be set in Sweden & featuring a centenarian. In reality, the main
character – Allan Karlsson – is played by Gustafsson, who’s only 49! However,
the title does accurately describe the first 15min of the film, but what
happens after that needs to be seen to be believed!
One serendipitous incident leads to
another and the script (or rather, the screenplay of the novel, which I haven’t
read) is so well written that as they get more absurd & hilarious, they
still somehow seem plausible within the story. It starts off in Sweden (English
subtitles, but with Karlsson’s spoken inner-monologue in English), but
by telling his life’s back story, takes in quite a few countries and eras – Spain,
America, Russia, WWII – quite ‘Forrest Gump’-like in parts, which is a good thing!
The three main supporting actors are
great characters and add to the story and it should be warned that some of the
humour is a little black, but it all done with so much zest that you can’t help
but laugh! A good ending, fun soundtrack and excellent pacing make this a
foreign/indie film well worth seeing!
Overall: Hilarious odd-ball foreign comedy.
Gav's Rating: 4 stars.
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