Friday, I talked about how well the ending of "Three Wise Men" proceeded from the events of the film.
Yesterday, I saw the opposite in O'Horten, a gentle Norwegian dramedy about a train engineer who retires at the opening of the film.
The film actually has two endings -- one ambiguous; the other explicit. To my mind, the former was the better ending and was consistent with the overall tone, while the other felt forced.
During the Q&A, the director, Bent Hamer, admitted that he debated which ending to use and in his younger days would likely have chosen the first ending.
Hamer also directed a film from a few years back called "Kitchen Stories", available on DVD. If you saw that film and enjoyed it, this would probably work for you.
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