When Art and I saw a movie review for The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared we were very excited. When DJan of DJan-ity recommended the book a while go I borrowed the book from our local library for my Kindle and read it. I liked it enough to recommend it to Art who also read it (without falling asleep). He falls asleep easily when he reads unlike me.
I got this from Wikipedia:
It needs a sequel since the movie covers only the first half of the book.
The story is indeed about the (mis)adventures of a Forrest Gump type person who escapes from a care home when they are about to celebrate his 100th birthday. Much of the book/movie is in flashbacks about the incredible story of his life.
I thought the movie followed the the story line sort of faithfully. It certainly captured the quirky mood. The dialogue is mostly in Swedish along with English, Russian, French (with subtitles) and I can't remember what else. The narration is in English.
There is violence so you have to be prepared for some of that. I'm also wondering if you can easily follow everything if you haven't read the book. Art says yes. I'm thinking probably.
Did we enjoy it? Yes. Would we go to see the sequel? Yes.
Should you? I don't know.
I got this from Wikipedia:
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a 2013 Swedish comedy film directed by Felix Herngren based on the novel of the same name by Jonas Jonasson. The film was screened in the Berlinale Special Gala section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
The film was a huge success, having been screened in more than 40 countries and grossing more than 50 million US dollar worldwide, making it the third highest grossing Swedish film of all time, only beaten by The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. There has been talk of a possible sequel but that has yet to be confirmed.
It needs a sequel since the movie covers only the first half of the book.
The story is indeed about the (mis)adventures of a Forrest Gump type person who escapes from a care home when they are about to celebrate his 100th birthday. Much of the book/movie is in flashbacks about the incredible story of his life.
I thought the movie followed the the story line sort of faithfully. It certainly captured the quirky mood. The dialogue is mostly in Swedish along with English, Russian, French (with subtitles) and I can't remember what else. The narration is in English.
There is violence so you have to be prepared for some of that. I'm also wondering if you can easily follow everything if you haven't read the book. Art says yes. I'm thinking probably.
Did we enjoy it? Yes. Would we go to see the sequel? Yes.
Should you? I don't know.
I am looking forward to seeing this movie, although I am not thinking it will be as good as the book, but now that you've given it a thumbs up, I'm hoping it comes here soon! :-)
ReplyDeleteKay, haven't read the book or seen the movie, so I would probably start with the book. Sounds like fun.
ReplyDeletesounds very interesting, thanks Kay!
ReplyDeleteI read the book, too. It was really good and I would love to see the movie if it should ever come to Fresno.
ReplyDeleteMuch like Art, I fall asleep whenever I try to read a book. I love to listen to audio books while I'm in my car. I'm checking out Amazon right now. Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteJalna, just borrow the book from the Hawaii library system for your Kindle. That's what I did. I'm sure they have the hard copies too. :-)
DeleteSo much good stuff goes under the radar.
ReplyDeletegreat book and film
ReplyDeleteI think I read the book. I'm actually not sure. Hmmm. I guess if I did it was not that memorable for me.I'll have to check my Kindle cloud.
ReplyDeleteI will have to get this book from the library. I've heard other people recommend this story.
ReplyDeletesounds interesting
ReplyDeletethanks, Kay
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I loved the book which sets me up to not like the movie as well but regardless, I will definitely give it a try. Sorry they are making it two parts though. That should confuse the non readers. Thanks for letting us know about it.
ReplyDeleteI just read Gone Girl! We don't go to movies anymore!!!
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