Combines memorable images of the gorgeous, rugged wilderness, meticulous sound design that emphasizes the characters' isolation, a dash of dark wit and a dose of madness.
How I Ended This Summer(Как я провёл этим летом)
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Russia · 2010
2h 4m
Director Aleksei Popogrebsky
Starring Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Artyom Tsukanov, Igor Chernevich
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Sergei and Pavel are the only two men on an island in the Arctic Ocean, working at a meteorological research station. One day, while Sergei is fishing for food, Pavel picks up an important message on the radio – one that can’t risk relaying. As distrust grows between the two men, can they remain together on the island?
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The movie's first hour happens to be its most absorbing. Director Alexei Popogrebsky sets up the quiet tensions between his two generationally divided characters like a chess match pocked with occasional power grabs.
Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
Playing an ignoble protagonist, Dobrygin keeps his motives always quietly evident; later, lost in a fog painted red by an emergency flare, he's an abject vision of man in a hell of his own making.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Above all How I Ended This Summer is a merciless contemplation of the fragile human psyche under siege.
Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei) and Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel) give powerful performances, but the real star is Mother Nature.
San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego
What stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.
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