Tag: Compartment No. 6

  • Compartment No 6 review – bittersweet brief encounter on an Arctic-bound train

    Compartment No 6 review – bittersweet brief encounter on an Arctic-bound train

    Two wildly mismatched travellers find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment from Moscow to Murmansk in Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s beguiling romanceBack in the early 1990s, while covering the filming of the bizarre Russian-backed, Ukraine-set horror movie Dark Waters, I spent 17 hours on a midnight train from Moscow to Odesa. To this day I can…

  • ‘Compartment No. 6’ to Open Haugesund’s Hybrid New Nordic Films 2021

    ‘Compartment No. 6’ to Open Haugesund’s Hybrid New Nordic Films 2021

    After the Viking conquest at July’s Cannes Festival, where Norway (“The Worst Person in the World”), Finland (“Compartment No. 6”) and Iceland (“Lamb”) collected kudos, more than 60 possible gems from the North are to be unveiled at the hybrid market New Nordic Films which will unspool over Aug. 24-27.Scandinavia’s major film showcase, New Nordic…