Compartment Number 6
Hytti nro 6
Juho Kuosmanen
© Haut et court
A young Finnish woman takes a train in Moscow to visit an archaeological site in the Arctic Sea. She is forced to share her compartment with a stranger. This cohabitation and a series of unlikely encounters gradually bring these two very opposite people together.
Screenplay : Livia Ulman, Juho Kuosmanen, Andris Feldmanis, Lyubov Mulmenko
Cinematography : J-P Passi
Editing : Jussi Rautaniemi
Cinematography : J-P Passi
Editing : Jussi Rautaniemi
Production : Elokuvayhtiö Oy Aamu
Crowned with the Grand Prix (...), Hytti nro 6 (Compartment n°6) was almost an original in the Cannes awards last July. Not just because we don’t know Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen well, but because of its classic style, which contrasted with the very radical Ahed's Knee and above all Titane. (...) Compartment n°6 succeeds in telling us an invisible story, making it so moving and enigmatic: how the kilometres swallowed up in the Russian steppe strip identities of their intimate and social assignations to arrive at a pure and timeless connection between two beings. Titanic was no different – the infinite ocean bringing Jack and Rose together in a surge of love – and there is obviously no coincidence that a nod is made to James Cameron’s cult film. As this almost ghostly train takes the characters to their destination – the town of Murmansk, home to a site of stones covered in prehistoric drawings – the film moves towards its past and its future. (...) (Emily Barnett; Les Inrocks)