Michael's Movie Grade: A-
A top-notch romance film.
This movie's storyline is one that is nothing groundbreaking for a romance movie. The basic premise is that a woman is making a long train journey alone, where she has to share her compartment with a man who she at first dislikes. However, as the film goes on they develop a close friendship. While we may have seen similar stories quite often, what this movie does with this premise is truly great. One of the main ways this is done is the journey itself. You feel like you are actually going on a journey with these characters. The film gives a great sense of atmosphere to each place we visit. Not only do each of these places look beautiful, but there is a certain personality to each place that makes them as much of characters as our protagonists. Meanwhile we are filled with great little side trips that are truly charming. This movie's true beauty lies in the smaller moments. After the film is over these are the parts that will stay with us. Scenes like our heroine being at a party where she so obviously doesn't belong, our two main characters meeting an old lady friend of the guy's or a Finnish man briefly staying in our main characters' compartment are so irresistibly charming and have a strange unexplainable beauty to them. Little moments like these of course add to the feeling that we are going on a journey with these characters. The relationship between our two main characters is fantastic. This is not one of those pictures where it seems like the two characters who hate each other, simply end up liking each other because the plot says so. Instead, the change in their relationship feels perfectly natural and believable. Also whether they are hating each other or developing a beautiful friendship, these two are a joy to watch share the screen. The chemistry between these characters and the actors who play them (Yuriy Borisov, Seidi Haarla) have excellent chemistry. This film also benefits from an excellent sense of humor and the last joke absolutely cracked me up.
A must see.
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