10/10
So Close, yet so Far!!
8 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The movie "Compartment 6" has a beautiful script about human relationships, one of the best in the road-movie genre, even though this one is on rails. Two complete strangers share a train compartment and during the trip, they avoid each other, and the more it happens the closer they get. Seidi Haarla as Laura and especially Yuriy Borisov as Ljoha are simply wonderful in their performances. The chemistry between them is so intense that their eyes reveal the slow connection that begins to emerge between them. Two lost strangers, one for lack of knowledge of the world and the other for love disappointment, two worlds that intersect and manage to empathize with each other.

Laura realizes the emptiness of her love relationship when a Russian taxi driver tells her that any Russian knows that it is impossible to reach her destination because of the rough weather in winter. And Ljoha realizes that his uneducated world is restricted to working in the mine.

The script intelligently accepts the sexuality of each one, not forcing sex scenes, especially when there is a man and a woman sharing a tiny train compartment for 3 days. Also, they do not confront each other, they accept each other the way they are. This is an adult movie where human connection is the main subject.
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