Review - The Old Man: The Movie (2019)
The Old Man: The Movie ( original title: Vanamehe Film ), is a weird flick. I mean REALLY weird. Take the charming, family-friendly stop motion animation of Aardman's Wallace and Gromit films and turn that on its head, throw in adult humor, F-words, truly bizarre set pieces and interactions, and then filter that through Euro-culture and you end up with what we have here. The Old Man is a web series from Estonia (north of Latvia, south of Finland) that follows the exploits of a grumpy old farmer who lives in the country and is occasionally visited by his grandchildren. The web shorts that inspired the film are dark, strange, and a little sardonic. Exhibit A: in one short, The Old Man goes to his barn one freezing cold night to discover that his cow is in the middle of birthing a calf, but the calf seems stuck. He pulls it out and looks at the warm birthing cavity, then climbs inside for warmth, then falls asleep. The next day, he awakes to find himself freezi...