Review of Compartment No. 6 (2021) by Bertobellamy — 18 Apr 2023
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.
This review of Compartment No. 6 (2021) was written by Bertobellamy on 18 Apr 2023.
Compartment No. 6 has generally received positive reviews.
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