Above all How I Ended This Summer is a merciless contemplation of the fragile human psyche under siege.
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SalonAndrew O'Hehir
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Combines memorable images of the gorgeous, rugged wilderness, meticulous sound design that emphasizes the characters' isolation, a dash of dark wit and a dose of madness.
The movie's first hour happens to be its most absorbing. Director Alexei Popogrebsky sets up the quiet tensions between his two generationally divided characters like a chess match pocked with occasional power grabs.
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Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Playing an ignoble protagonist, Dobrygin keeps his motives always quietly evident; later, lost in a fog painted red by an emergency flare, he's an abject vision of man in a hell of his own making.