A sixty-seven-year-old Norwegian train conductor retires, meets and loses a couple of new friends, finally takes a chance. Not much there there, yet
Bent Hamer (
Factotum,
Kitchen Stories) uses the face and the quiet of
Bård Owe to make it all matter. Wonderful turn by
Espen Skjønberg as a dipsomaniac genius found in the gutter, who provides the essential metaphor of the film.
Crit
The best con, we are told beginning (yes, that familiar voiceover voice is
Ricky Jay's) and end, is the one in which everyone gets what he or she wants. Ditto the best con movies. I desperately wanted to love this, but despite the wonderful cast, I eventually just wanted them to get on with it, con or not con, elope or not elope, whatever.
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