The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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!

I felt like I was watching a Swedish version of Forrest Gump, which made the length of the film tiresome. The humor wasn't particularly witty or clever, but mostly based on violence and racist depictions of other cultures and non-white people. The surprises in the story line and vague historical references were what saved it and made it somewhat entertaining, but again, falling too heavily on killing people as a comedic device. not one i'll come back to.

The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared is a best-selling 2009 Swedish book. Now, it has been adapted into this 2013 film, and is certain to entertain with its pure unique and fun plot.The film is as unique as the book, with a ridiculous yet humorous plot about the 100 year old man who runs away from his retirement home and gets into all sorts of mess along the way.The film is paced well, with the narration of the old man keeping the film moving, and helping to transition as smoothly as possible from the present to Allan's past. The wild plot, pieced together by every event in the story, shapes the characters and makes the film even more humorous, as viewers truly appreciate the great coincidences that help keep them, especially Allan, out of trouble.However, the film doesn't quite adapt the book perfectly. The book is quite a long read, and so naturally many plot elements needed to be left out. While many readers would have seen this as a negative, instead I think it makes the film much easier to watch, or else it would have been too long and overflowing. Regardless, more time could definitely have been spent on Allan, the 100 year old's, younger days. Many plot points were also changed, for example the omission of Allan's first Bali visit as a younger man. The book is also better at linking Allan's youth with the present. Even so, with such a complex and long book there was great risk in creating a bad movie; the producers certainly did not fail.The book is a fun read, and this film is a fun watch. Yes, the book was better, however this isn't a surprise; if the entire book really were adapted it'd be a significantly longer film. The film is still definitely a great watch; just make sure you have subtitles though, a lot of the film is in Swedish.

I've seen some wacky comedies but few like Felix Herngren's "Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann" ("The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" in English). I didn't know that this movie was based on a book, but I'd say that you don't have to have read the book to find the movie hilarious. Like "Forrest Gump" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" it incorporates real events into its fictional story. I guess that one could say that the movie reminds us that age is just a number that we apply to ourselves, because you've never had a series of experiences like this centenarian has! I have no doubt that you'll enjoy the movie. It goes to show that, yes, the Scandinavians CAN be funny.PS: Alan Ford is best known for roles in Guy Ritchie movies, but also appeared in "An American Werewolf in London" and "Chaplin".