Schultze Gets the Blues (2005)

Gentle movie about a bachelor who reaches retirement in his quiet German town and stumbles upon a new interest (zydeco music). The lead is so winning and the story so heartwarming that the fact that it's downright boring sometimes (intentionally, I think, so that we see the tedium of his life) doesn't really get in the way. Good story that could've been better if the "boring" portions weren't so overlong.

B-