For wearisome reasons, the World War II cinema canon focuses mostly on the same handful of European nations — Germany, France, Italy, and England — and spares little room for others.
This is a mildly annoying habit that the movies will inevitably self-correct; the world happens to be pretty big and the war was fought across all its corners, so we’ll never run out of stories to tell about it.
We’ll just have to go out of the way to find them, like, say, to Lapland, the setting of Jalmari Helander’s “Sisu,” a wartime action thriller of bloody excess where location is everything.
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