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In a cinematic landscape often choked with formula, this film emerges like a strange flower pushing through frostbitten soil. It's an unusual, one-of-a-kind creation-bizarre, yes, but never grotesque; its oddness is clean, almost naïve, as if it wandered in from a dream that doesn't quite know it's a nightmare.

Firmly rooted in the cold, misty terrain of Scandinavian storytelling, the film embraces the region's dark clichés-stoic silences, emotional undercurrents thicker than snowdrifts, and bleakly beautiful landscapes-only to twist them ever so gently. There's a quiet humour humming underneath the melancholy, like a candle flickering in a wintry cabin.

Despite its eerie tone and occasionally unsettling moments, the film is undeniably likeable. It doesn't try to shock, but rather to charm you into its strange rhythm. A little offbeat, a little uncanny, but deeply sincere-it's a rare gem for those willing to step off the well-lit path and into the soft, snow-laced shadows. Recommended.

You will enjoy it, if you dare to believe in the story after the first ten minutes.

Truly brilliant, in this genre hardly believable.

Btw, you will not find this on one of the big streamers. Guess why...

This was really above all my expectations! Enjoyable, tense, well balanced, congratulations to the whole cast. Demolished all prejudices against non-Hollywood, East-European creative art. 10/10, you won't be disappointed.