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Theres something startlingly intimate aboutCompartment No.
So I guess that makes it one of this years best filmsandone of last years.
6follows two mismatched souls forced together during a long train ride from Moscow to Murmansk.
Quite a step down from the elegant Irina and her high-ceilinged flat filled with books and paintings.
Their encounter also took place in the waning days of the Soviet Union.
Kuosmanen shoots with an immediacy that seems to run counter to the storys literary origins.
you’re able to still feel the chill in your bones.
But you dont need to be familiar with this specific situation to appreciate what Kuosmanen has done.
Of course, Laura and Ljoha get to know each other better over the course of the trip.
If Haarlas Laura is hesitant and submerged, Borisovs Ljoha is wiry and restive.
From one angle, he seems like pure predator.
Look closer, however, and you might see pure prey.
He works in a big mine, but he says he wants to save money to start a business.
When she asks him what kind of business, he seems perplexed at the question: Fuck.
(One is reminded of the mechanics of the word:busyness.)
She doesnt seem capable of navigating this reality; he seems capable of navigating only this reality.
