The Cuckoo (2002)
Country: RUS
Technical: col 103m
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast: Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Anni-Kristina Juuso
Synopsis:
Two men on opposing sides, a Finnish sniper and Russian lieutenant, both themselves fall guys for their own armies, are taken in and saved from death by a beautiful Lapp homesteader scratching a living on the shores of a lake.
Review:
Deliciously ironic by virtue of its threeway linguistic incomprehension, this frequently wordless film achieves passages of astonishing clarity, beauty and mythology, with the cinematography capturing a certain chill, metalic hue in the weak light of the northern latitudes. Possible dangers of schematicism (cf. Genesis, Hell in the Pacific) are allayed by frequent humour.
Country: RUS
Technical: col 103m
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast: Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Anni-Kristina Juuso
Synopsis:
Two men on opposing sides, a Finnish sniper and Russian lieutenant, both themselves fall guys for their own armies, are taken in and saved from death by a beautiful Lapp homesteader scratching a living on the shores of a lake.
Review:
Deliciously ironic by virtue of its threeway linguistic incomprehension, this frequently wordless film achieves passages of astonishing clarity, beauty and mythology, with the cinematography capturing a certain chill, metalic hue in the weak light of the northern latitudes. Possible dangers of schematicism (cf. Genesis, Hell in the Pacific) are allayed by frequent humour.
Country: RUS
Technical: col 103m
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast: Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Anni-Kristina Juuso
Synopsis:
Two men on opposing sides, a Finnish sniper and Russian lieutenant, both themselves fall guys for their own armies, are taken in and saved from death by a beautiful Lapp homesteader scratching a living on the shores of a lake.
Review:
Deliciously ironic by virtue of its threeway linguistic incomprehension, this frequently wordless film achieves passages of astonishing clarity, beauty and mythology, with the cinematography capturing a certain chill, metalic hue in the weak light of the northern latitudes. Possible dangers of schematicism (cf. Genesis, Hell in the Pacific) are allayed by frequent humour.