The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann - 2013)

I liked very much this charming, off-kilter comedy about a naïve yet wily centenarian whose past and present misadventures belie his advanced age, inserting him, á la Forrest Gump, into history. With a voiceover dubbed into English (at least for our subtitled version), the movie follows Allan, who likes to blow things up, from his birth past his notable birthday. Swedish comedian Robert Gustafsson (now 50), who figures he spent three weeks of the shoot in makeup, has the body language down pat for his older role and switches for the flashbacks.

Director/co-writer Felix Herngren (new to me, he's a TV, movie, and commercial director, writer, producer, and actor, and after this movie he worked on the writing team for all 13 episodes of The Comedians and the producing team of Welcome to Sweden) and co-writer Hans Ingemansson adapted the worldwide best-selling novel of the same name by Jonas Jonasson.

The circus music by Matti Bye (sample here and here) made me think of the soundtrack to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

It's ridiculous that the averages on Rotten Tomatoes are only 67 for critics and 69 for audiences. No sense of humor. Humph. Especially for something that may have the longest title ever. For those keeping track, Jack had no opinion because he couldn't join me that day.