The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed out of the Window

[canadian_turtle]

Saw this at a preview last night organised by the book's publishers and while I haven't read the novel (yet) I thoroughly enjoyed this bonkers film. A movie that combines an 100-year-old man with key figures from history (such as Einstein and Franco) and seemingly random story strands involving a biker gang and an elephant in the woods in Sweden, sounds pretty mad but somehow it works. Clocking in just under two hours this is quite a long film, but because of the amount of stuff that happens in it it doesn't feel it at all. It's a very fun movie and one which I hope will be the beginning of many involving 'golden oldies'.

8/10

[raj101]

we used to have this 100 year old guy on our ward who used to get up and start dancing. I was always worried he would try and run off lol.

[ladams888]

and Disappeared (Couldn't fit the full title in the Subject Line!)

Saw this yesterday at the Hospital Club, Covent Garden. There were just 19 of us in their lovely 30-seat cinema. A heartwarming, quirky, black-comedy about an old man (Allan) who escapes the boredom of his nursing home and unwittingly finds himself in bizarre situations. Throughout the film we learn more of his background – his love of explosions, his ability to make friends from all walks of life and the good fortune that appears to follow him. There are many similarities to Forrest Gump – but with a few more bodies thrown in for good measure. I haven’t read the book (yet) so cannot comment on how accurate to the book it was. All in all it was a very witty film with many laugh out loud moments, and with Allan (aging from a teenager to a 100-year-old man) retaining his childlike innocence right to the end. Mostly Swedish with subtitles with bits of English, Russian and Spanish depending on which country Allan was in. Definitely recommend. 9/10

[canadian_turtle]

Mods, please merge topic with: http://fmuk.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php? ... it=climbed

[elski]

ladams888 were you also at boyhood on tuesday? we seem to be following each other this week!

[ladams888]

Yes - at Boyhood on Tues and Begin Again on Mon. Night off tonight!

[Cortone]

Saw this at the new Curzon in Ripon - a first for me. Very small cinema, but comfortable - and the staff were trying very hard to make it a good cinema experience.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film - I'd heard good things of the book, but had not read it so was not quite sure of what to expect. It did not take long for me to relax into this story, and just go with the flow.

It is hardly a true story, has slapstick type comedy at times, but it is charming and unusual, and the whole audience (mainly fairly mature) laughing loudly.

The lead reminded me of my first 'boss', who I saw recently (at least 15 years since I last saw him). He's 89, and is constantly travelling all over on "adventures", meeting up with old friends and family, and writing about his earlier life working in commodity trading in e.g. Nigeria. It is nice when older characters can feature positively - some of them may be shrinking in height, but are larger than life.

[RAZORBACK]

Really enjoyed this & thought it was much funnier than a lot of mainstream comedies that have been released recently.

With great performances from pretty much the entire cast this more than deserves an 8/10 from me ...