Concrete Night

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Concrete Night

2013

1h 36m

Drama

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A 14-year-old Finn learns poor life lessons from his brother before the latter's incarceration.

Ella Taylor

Variety

This mawkish bummer about an ill-used teenage boy wandering around a surreally forbidding Helsinki is marred by a facile nihilism that trivializes the urban alienation it seeks to illuminate.

Dec 22, 2014

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Drew Hunt

Chicago Reader

[The cinematography] amplifies the sense of desolation, but the images are poetic and stirring rather than debilitating; the dramatic lighting gives the rundown buildings and abandoned construction sites an otherworldly look.

Oct 16, 2014

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Kristin Tillotson

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Black-and-white bleak never has looked more beautiful.

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 31, 2014

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Michael Sicinski

Cinema Scope

This is the sort of film that you watch with a double consciousness, constantly distracted by the battle between visionary impulse and rank cliché.

Nov 22, 2017

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

A powerful piece of work, beautifully depicted, this is all the more remarkable as so much of it rests on the shoulders of young Brotherus, in his debut feature role.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 23, 2014

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I have to admit, I stopped paying abstention to the story early on and just enjoyed the pretty pictures. Gorgeous monochromatic cinematography.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Hieno & komea & intensiivinen elokuva.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Despite grotesque, stylish cinematography.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

Hienoa että Suomessa tehdään tämmösiä elokuvia! Mustavalkoelokuva on hieno taiteellinen oivallus, joka korostaa elokuvan tunnelmaa. Nuoret pääosanäyttelijät tekee hienon roolin, pitkän linjan ohjaaja Honkasalo yhdessä lavastajan ja kuvaajan kanssa näyttävän kokonaisuuden.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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jake s

I'm not generally the biggest fan of black and white, but damn near every frame of this this was breathtakingly gorgeous.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Pirjo Honkasalo

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Synopsis

A 14-year-old Finn learns poor life lessons from his brother before the latter's incarceration.

Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Producer: Erik Hemmendorff, Misha Jaari, Lise Lense-Møller, Marie Kjellson
Screenwriter: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio
Production Co: Plattform Produktion, Oy Bufo Ab, Magic Hour Films ApS
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Finnish
Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2017
Runtime: 1h 36m

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