2019 · drama · memory · period
Out Stealing Horses
Directed by Hans Petter Moland2h 2m2019
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.
Our read: Out Stealing Horses (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · memory · period entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / memory, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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