Friday, September 20, 2013

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Finland

A most unusual film. Dark, subtle Finnish humor.

Long ago Santa Claus was a mean sucka so the Sami people encased him in ice and buried him under a man-made mountain 1500 meters high. Well some Americans heard about this so they came and began to drill down seeking to kidnap the actual Santa and use him to make money. Somehow.

Nice locations in the high arctic.

I knew nothing of this when I sat down and as it went by I sat in frozen disbelief wondering where they were going to take this idea. And they took it to a pretty good place when all was said and done.

Nice original take on what you can do with a 'Christmas' movie.

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