Swedish comedy based on the 2009 novel of the same name, about the life and times of a dynamite expert and the unlikely events following his escape from an old folk's home on his 100th birthday.
On his 100th birthday, Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) sits quietly in his room in an old people's home, waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not… He climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. As we get a glimpse into Allan's past, we discover that this centenarian has unwittingly played a part in some of mankind's most historical moments.
A comedy with humour as absurd as the length of its title, 100-Year-Old Man is difficult to describe in a single sentence. However, I’ll give it a go: it’s a Swedish sandwich containing slices of Forrest Gump, Snatch and any single Monty Python film. Though it only takes quarter measures of what makes those films great, the result is still a unique and amusing – if a tad overlong – summation of an impulse-driven man’s life.
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This picaresque European fantasy has an element of knockabout black comedy that can't conceal its Sweet'N Low taste of sentimentality and whimsy.
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You’ll often smile in amusement, but there’s something worrying about a character who reduces a spell in the Soviet gulags to a few sly gags.
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An absurdist escapade that's quirky fun but not as side-splitting as it thinks it is.
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