Out Stealing Horses

[Subtitled] [Plays in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] When a reserved, grief-stricken, 67-year-old Swedish widower (Stellan Skarsgård) ends up meeting his guilt-ridden neighbor (Bjørn Floberg) in the winter of 1999 in the Norwegian countryside and realizes he knew him from his childhood in this poignant, somber, low-key, well-acted, critically acclaimed, 123-minute, 2019 film adapted from Per Petterson's 2003 bestselling novel and highlighted by gorgeous cinematography and scenery, the meeting triggers him to reminisce about his difficult summer in 1948 as a sexually-awakening 15-year-old teenager (Jon Ranes) living with his father (Tobias Santelmann) in Norway while his mother (Tone Beate Mostraum) and sister stayed in Sweden and finding himself attracted to the striking mother (Danica Curcic) of a close friend (Sjur Vatne Brean).
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