A Finnish student (Seidi Haarla) is on her way to the Arctic port of Moscow, a step closer to her research of Kanozero Petroglyphs and away from her enigmatic love affair.
She is forced to share a tiny train compartment with an unpleasant Russian miner for the duration of the journey (Yuriy Borisov).
During the journey, the two form an unexpected friendship and are forced to confront truths about human connection.
Following his 2016 Un Certain Regard victory The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen has moved to the Competition at Cannes, and this film follows up where the earlier film's soft-hearted ending left off.
Following his 2016 Un Certain Regard prize The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen has moved to the Competition at Cannes, and this film follows up where that film's soft-hearted ending left off.
Seidi Haarla presents a winning, intellectual performance as a naturally extremely brilliant person made to feel small and powerless in a strange environment in the 2021 class, which has already been a fantastic Cannes Competition for female actors.
Irina mentions Marilyn Monroe early in the film: "Just pieces of us will ever touch only parts of others."
Once its protagonists get off the train, but before it settles for being a TIFF audience prize runner-up, a film called Compartment No. 6 should definitely conclude faster than this one does.