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
How I Ended This Summer
2010 · 2h 4m · N/A
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Alexey Popogrebsky
Overview
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...
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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
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