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- 2021
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 47 m
- 2021
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 47 m
Summary A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Directed By: Juho Kuosmanen
- 2021
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 47 m
- 2021
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 47 m
Compartment No. 6
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7.5
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Summary A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Directed By: Juho Kuosmanen
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
80
85% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
15% Mixed
5 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
80
85% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
15% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Kuosmanen has given us another affair to remember, this time about love as something for which you’d not just go to the ends of the Earth, but to the beginning of time.
It’s tough-minded and tender-hearted in equal measure. It’s also slyly insightful on the theme of chance elements in solo travel, and unexpected, emotionally tricky connections along the way.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 User Ratings
7.5
85% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
12% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
4% Negative
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1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 User Ratings
7.5
85% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
12% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
4% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Based in late 1990s Russia Male protagonist is a Uber Russian male alcoholic miner
Female protagonist is a Finnish lesbian university student
They happen to take a multi-day train ride sharing the same train compartment across Russia How at the end of the journey they connect is the basic human drama they never f*** but awesome love story
You will come out of the theater with a WIDE GRIN on your face 100 times better than Titanic for a Love story
Obviously they are poles apart so they don't get together forever but it's haunting when she eventually leaves
Great movie about:
Companionship
Friendship
Travel
Human connection
Bleak beautiful landscapes
Shot on the train with long haunting shots of train tracks passing by
This will be a serious Oscar contender next year
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This plays like a more grounded and dirtier version of 'Before Sunrise.' Juho Kuosmanen's romantic drama uses the bleak Russian winter landscape to frame a story about loneliness. Seidi Haarla and Yuri Borisov — who play two strangers with very different backgrounds that have to share a compartment on a train from Moscow to Murmansk — make one hell of a pair. Of course, since the start, we know where the relationship between the characters may go, but 'Compartment No. 6' subverts expectations by making them find a little of what they lack in each other in unforeseen and very funny ways. Kuosmanen changes the idyllic setting of Linklater's Western Europe setting for the cold and harsh northern Russian environment to get a more realistic effect. Just my kind of romance.
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Haarla and Borisov demonstrate impeccable timing and expertly tiny movements as they warm up to one another. It’s something like love but without either sex or romance. And it’s a joy to behold.
The performances, the writing and the direction all conspire to make it feel fresh and specific, and as bleak as the settings may be, it has a delicious black comic streak and shares the buzz of personal re-awakening without ever feeling obvious or cheap. It turns out to be a beacon of warmth amid a frozen wasteland.
The movie has an unhurried rhythm, not slow, but unpressured. It’s a visual equivalent of the clacking of the railroad tracks.
Grasping for meaning in its unsettling, occasionally comic and always cryptic “relationship” can be an interesting thought exercise.
The movie sinks, fast and deep, under the weight of dramatic shortcuts, overemphatic details, undercooked possibilities, unconsidered implications.
It's perfectly acted and incredibly naturalistic.
I'm only giving it an 8 because its scope and originality is a little lacking, but what it attempts to do, it succeeds in almost completely.
Every actor was basically perfect but major props to the lead male who just exudes this kinda restless self-hatred - or is it extreme loneliness? - so convincingly that no exposition/explanation is required; and is somehow boisterous and a bit scary and vulnerable all at once. Great job. The only thing I didn't really like was the Finnish dude. I know we aren't meant to like him, but even so, I found that too much time was spent on that episode for little value.
Very similar vibes to Lost in Translation, but it is still very much it's own thing. Also thankfully I didn't fall in love with the main character like I do every goddamn time with Scarlett Johannson.
Haista vittu.
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Compartment No. 6 tells the story of a woman who ends up in a train compartment with a man she does not know. The two of them start to talk and it quickly becomes apparent that they have a lot in common. As they continue to talk, the woman starts to realize that the man may be more than he seems. As the story progresses, the true nature of the man is revealed, and the woman must decide whether to trust him. The two lead performances are excellent, and the chemistry between the two actors is palpable. The film is visually stunning, and the setting of the train adds to the atmosphere of paranoia and claustrophobia. Unfortunately, the arc of the story becomes predictable early on, and the pace is so slow that one needs to be very patient to get through it. Some may find the payoff rewarding but, for me, it left me feeling hollow. Compartment No. 6 is a well-acted and beautifully shot film that falls victim to its own predictability. If you are willing to take your time with it, you may find something to appreciate. However, if you are looking for a fast-paced thriller, you will be disappointed.
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I'll be blunt about this one -- I just didn't get it, and I don't know what the fuss is all about. Director Juho Kuosmanen's third feature tells the story of young Finnish archaeology student who travels from Moscow to Murmansk to see a collection of fabled Russian petroglyphs after being unceremoniously ditched by her girlfriend, a tale that meanders more than the tracks of the train on which she travels. To a great degree that's precipitated by the implausible "relationship" that slowly simmers between the protagonist and the drunken, lecherous, oversexed traveling companion who shares her train compartment, a working class lout who, when he's not excessively imbibing in anything alcoholic, engages in various forms of threatening and sexually aggressive behavior. (And we're supposed to believe that she's legitimately developing an attraction to someone like that? Yeah, sure.) And this is just the first of many illogical plot devices that pepper a narrative that increasingly lacks believability the further one gets into the film, including elements that unfold on its endless train trip and upon arrival in Murmansk, where yet another set of wholly unlikely events emerges. I didn't buy any of it, not for a minute, and I don't understand how others could, either. This one goes off the rails early on and never manages to get back on track, and, by movie's end, I'd be hard-pressed to understand why anyone would care anyway.
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Production Company
Elokuvayhtiö Oy Aamu,
Achtung Panda! Media,
Amrion,
CTB Film Company,
Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR),
Yleisradio (YLE),
ARTE,
Finnish Film Foundation,
Eurimages,
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Estonian Film Institute,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Cultural Endowment of Estonia,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date Nov 19, 2021
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Tagline One encounter can change everything.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Jussi Awards
• 8 Wins & 12 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
