Marta Balaga Following his 2016 Un Certain Regard win with “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,” Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen is back in Cannes with “Compartment No.
6,” and this time, in the main competition. Inspired by Rosa Liksom’s book, it follows two strangers on a train to Murmansk, Russia: a young Finnish woman, dreaming of seeing ancient petroglyphs, and a Russian miner.The action takes place on the train for most of the story.
What were the challenges of staying in a confined space? We departed from St. Petersburg and shot on the train for almost two weeks.
But we didn’t go all the way to Murmansk, even though that was our first idea.One obvious reference point was Wolfgang Petersen’s “Das Boot.” It might have been.
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