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A violent Swedish comedy

"The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" (R, Music Box) belongs in a new category of films: violent Swedish comedy. There's spiritual anguish, slow-moving drama, actors in the dark and rain, depressing clunky knit jumpers. The highest-grossing Swedish film of all time, it is a hoot. Director Felix Herngren's movie, about a centenarian who escapes his old folks home for cross-country escapades, is based on the international bestseller of the same name by Jonas Jonasson, which has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. In English and Swedish with English subtitles. Contains profanity and some violence.

Colin Covert