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Frozen Land (2005) Certificate 18

Frozen Land

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Rated 3.0 stars
Average rating
(58%)
 
Starring: Jasper Paakkonen | Mikko Leppilampi | Pamela Tola | Petteri Summanen | Matleena Kuusniemi
Director: Aku Louhimies
Studio: ICA FILMS
Run time: 117 mins
Genres: Drama
Languages: Finnish
Subtitles: English
Released: May 14, 2007
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Set against the backdrop of an iced-over contemporary Helsinki, and based on Leo Tolstoy's False Note, Frozen Land takes you on a journey through a strikingly bleak and occasionally blackly funny landscape. Set in motion by the printing of a forged 500 euro note, the film bounces between the lives of a pair of young computer hackers, a depressed policewoman, a mullet-haired car thief and a vacuum salesman and recovering alcoholic, who falls off the wagon with a vengeance.

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25 out of 25 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5 stars
Grim with a grin

Tiina Heinonen from London, England, 18th April, 2007

Imagine the most depressing winter you will never experience: grey instead of white, no snowfights and certainly no wonderlands. This is the Finland as portrayed by 'Frozen Land'. With no apologies, this film follows a bunch of people whose lives are oddly linked to each others' with results beyond anyone's nightmares. Yes, most characters are flawed in the way that only celluloid characters can - completely annoying and frustrating to watch, yet for some reason you wish for their luck to turn miraculously. With some randomly placed humour and a cast that groups together Finland's somewhat mainstream faces, Frozen Land offers a glimpse of the Finnish mentality that despite its depressing downward spirals manages to restore some faith in humanity. More so than Kaurismäki, to say the least.

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12 out of 14 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4 stars
Contemporary Finnish Cinema

jii from , 26th May, 2007

Finnish Cinema is known in Europe mostly because movies made by Kaurismäki brothers. What director Aku Louhimies offers here is a more contemporary view of urban Finland. Bleak and slushy Helsinki is portrayed very authentically in this episode movie that follows couple unlucky people during a short period of time. Although few characters of the movie seem a bit pretentious, some are spot on. Especially veteran actor Sulevi Peltola, who delivers stunning and very chilling performance as an aging Hoover salesman. Instead of Kaurismäki's overly staged style Frozen Land is much more mainstream in it's dynamics. Maybe for a first time Louhimies brings the quality of Finnish contemporary cinema up to the level with European independent and art house counterparts. See this movie if you wanna see a good (which is rare) Finnish movie. PS: It's not a date movie as the topics are typically Finnish: alcoholism, loneliness, manslaughter and of course suicide.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5 stars
masterpiece

A Customer from Lydney, England, 22nd June, 2007

this movie is so depressiv that you want to commit suicide after watching it.... the characters, the atmosphere and the story....just brilliant and what I exactly expect from a good finish movie.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4 stars
Black And White Nights

Bribaba from from London, 15th June, 2007

At times this Finnish film is so edgy and bleak I found myself pining for Bergman to provide light relief. It’s kind of anti-visceral cinema; its negative pleasures deriving from the realisation that you’re not these characters, in these situations. If that is the aim, then it succeeds brilliantly and is a credit to all involved. Even if it isn't it's still a credit to all involved, particularly the cast. But Helsinki! Wtf?

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1 stars
Not for me

A Customer from Brighton, 23rd November, 2008

I didn't relize it wasn't in English this film so didn't even watch it!

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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Rated 0 stars
frozen rubbish

A Customer from Rochester, 13th November, 2008

This is probably the worst film i have ever seen, just watching it made me depressed, maybe that is what the director wanted then I should give it 5 stars. But bad points are the subtitles, i found it hard to read them at time as they are always in white and you never know who's speaking from the subs. Feel like i wasted 2hrs.

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Rated 5 stars
Customer Review

A Customer from UK, 23rd June, 2008

This films makes you wonder how your life has been and it can be affected by the actions and mood of others - maybe people that you never encounter with.

The story or the stories could happen anywhere it doesn't have to be Finland that's for sure, but there are very few scenes that show the beauty of this country.

If you want to watch something different, sad and depressing then this is the movie for you.

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Rated 4 stars
Customer Review

A Customer from UK, 23rd June, 2008

I was glued to the film from start to Finnish (haha).

Some great character's, especially the man with the mullet (car thief) who's attempts to do anything resulted in moments of pure comedy.

The greatest achievement of this film was it's ability flow from one story to another so effortlessly.

A clever, simple, at times dark and at times funny film.

Would of given it 5 had I have found out who was driving that Ford Sierra.

I say watch it.

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