How I Ended This Summer
Drama, Thriller
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2010
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A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere...
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
124 min
Release date:
1 Apr 2010
Country:
RU
Languages:
Russian
Budget:
$2,500,000
Revenue:
$622,644
Awards:
16 wins & 24 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
So-called 'slow cinema', if executed with delicacy, has the power to exert a trance-like hold over us, but this one falls flat at every dreary hurdle.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
20 Apr 2011
fresh:
What stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Feb 2011
fresh:
Just when you think that nothing more is going to happen, all hell breaks loose in the form of a deadly game of cat and mouse.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
4 Feb 2011
fresh:
How I Ended This Summer 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.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
3 Feb 2011
fresh:
Popogrebsky sets up the quiet tensions between his two generationally divided characters like a chess match pocked with occasional power grabs...
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
2 Feb 2011