Compartment No. 6 – strangers on a Russian train sweetly connect
Long-distance travel makes hearts grow fonder. Film review by Nick Hasted
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Long-distance travel makes hearts grow fonder. Film review by Nick Hasted
Long-distance travel makes hearts grow fonder, in a poignantly Russia-traversing romance
Several Estonians were involved in the process of making "Compartment No. 6", a movie by Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, which was chosen for the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
Certain discontents of contemporary Russia get a fascinating, provocative treatment in Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Student,” the tale of a high school boy who disrupts his school and home as he falls deeper and deeper into religious mania. In certain moments, the film displays a daring that’s bound to strike some viewers as extraordinarily nervy. In scenes early and late in the story—which obviously reflects a displeasure with the increasing prominence of state-sanctioned religion in Russia—characters make bold statements while standing beneath a portrait of Vladimir Putin, a gest...