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 Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection.
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| Washington PostAnn HornadayKuosmanen 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIn stripping genre ornamentation away to get to what brings people together in stark, lonely, and in this case, mighty cold circumstances, Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen (“The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki”) has achieved something genuinely unlikely, and quietly renewing about what a love story can be. |
| Original-CinLiam LaceyAdapted from a novel by Finnish writer Rosa Liksom and set in brutal cold of a northern Russian winter or in a cramped jostling train car, Compartment No. 6 somehow lands in an unexpected warm place between the grim and the serio-comic. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAn observation that when you’re running away, it doesn’t matter where you’re running to as much as it matters where you’re running from. “Compartment No. 6” has an always energetic sense of place even when it’s keeping to the confined space of its title room. Combined with the committed acting, it makes for a worthwhile journey. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Aparita BhandariRussia’s stark landscape makes for breathtaking and sometimes comical scenes. This is a trip well worth taking. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriThere’s nothing particularly surprising about the story, but Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen finds a way to make an old tale feel new. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisPart of what makes Compartment No. 6 engrossing and effective is how Kuosmanen plays with tone. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt’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. |
| The Associated PressJake CoyleAdapting Rosa Liksom’s novel of the same name, Kuosmanen has moved the book from the ’80s to the ’90s and lost some of the story’s political backdrop in favor of a more out-of-time love story. |
| Boston GlobeMark FeeneyThe movie has an unhurried rhythm, not slow, but unpressured. It’s a visual equivalent of the clacking of the railroad tracks. |
