2013 · comedy · adventure
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Directed by Felix Herngren1h 55m2013
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Our read: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · adventure entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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