If a movie puts two strangers together in a new city, or en route to one, two words tend to come up in comparison. They are: “before” and “sunrise,” thanks to the first, Vienna-set meetup in Richard ...

In Hollywood, timing is everything. And the new film Compartment No. 6, screening in Bay Area theaters, although created by Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki) ...

“Compartment No. 6” is both the name of director Juho Kuosmanen’s latest film and the setting for much of it — a tight car on a crumbling Russian train rumbling north through ice and snow. It’s where ...

Compartment No. 6 largely unfolds aboard a passenger train rattling its way through Russia sometime during the late '90s. But it feels like a throwback to an older tradition of railway movies, with ...

Sometimes you can tell from the first shot. In “Compartment No. 6,” the camera follows a young woman at a party as she leaves a bathroom and enters a living room full of gathered friends. That walking ...

A young Finnish woman embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her (and you) through richly detailed and surprising terrain. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Seidi Haarla as Laura in the Finnish drama COMPARTMENT NO. 6. Photo credit Sami Kuokkanen/Aamu Film Company. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Two strangers on a train, a young Finnish woman (Seidi ...

Forget that boring “Death on the Nile” and come on board an entirely different travel movie, the Finland-Russia-Estonia-Germany co-production and Cannes Grand Prix award winner “Compartment No. 6.” It ...

A train ride from Moscow to the arctic port city of Murmansk would not seem like the most likely setting for anything as warm as Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6.” To Laura (Seidi ...

Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, behind “Compartment No. 6” and “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki”– both awarded in Cannes – will now turn his attention to new series “Yours, Margot.” The ...

Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6,” in Russian and Finnish with English subtitles, starts as a road movie—a railroad movie—and threatens to become a darkly funny horror story. (It’s playing in ...