Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

2010 "This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus"
6.6| 1h23m| R| en
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Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…

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Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
zarakian Just when you thought the Finns had no sense of humour along come this film and proves you right! This is the sort of film you get from some idiot who thinks. 1. i am really clever 2. i am just so funny 3. I am bit of a rebel don't you know. The main characters are just so crap and annoying you actually hope "Santa" will kill them off in the first 15 minutes and spare you the rest of this garbage, unfortunately not. Of course there are those who give it a good review but then they think 1. i am really clever 2. i am just so funny 3. I am bit of a rebel don't you know. In short this is a movie Santa would make you watch if you had been naughty. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!
Kirpianuscus the dark humor is the basic virtue of a film who explores, in different angle, the story of a well known character. and does it in inspired manner, with subtle grace, proposing a seductive story about tradition, trade, solutions and childhood. a film who represents more than a nice show but a courageous travel across the myths image and the North Europe fairy tales. film of the characters more than film of story, it is an useful trip in middle of an universe who seems be different by the well known information. a challenge. but not at all. because it is one of films who use irony with high art. more a parable than story, it reminds values who defines the present and the success as antidote against the shadows of the past.
sol- Having discovered that the "real" Santa Claus was a half-man monster who punished naughty children before being frozen in ice, a young boy living in icebound Finland comes to suspect that Santa has been dug up and unfrozen when his father's reindeer herd are slaughtered in this decidedly offbeat Christmas movie. The film gets off to a strong start with some truly horrific drawings of what Santa apparently actually looks like and the reindeer slaughter is certainly quite eerie. The film spends too long though building up suspense and tension with the suggestion that Santa is on the very verge of going on a rampage; it is an over hour in before any real action as such begins... and the overall film is less than an hour and a half long! The payoff is not even as frightening or thrilling as it is built up to be (we never see Santa actually punishing naughty children) with the film eventually coming off as a fairly prototypical monster movie, Christmas twist aside. It is hard not to admire the film's willingness to challenge conventional notions of Santa Claus and Christmas, but at the same time, the potential for more is striking. The mythology only ever seems half-developed without the right dose of exposition, and it is no surprise to learn that the film was spun off from two short films by the same director that, apparently, explain things in more detail. The film at least ends on a strong note with a memorable suggestion of where one traditional Christmas staple comes from, and the overall film is daringly different no doubt - but not for all tastes.
Armand bitter story. dark humor. new version of an old story. seductive for the science of mixture. and for a remarkable performance of young Onni Tommila. a film about courage and wise childhood,about adults and their lost of basic signs perception. ironic, almost sarcastic, seductive and clever, it is a good film against its imperfections. and key is courage and science to use a mythology in a different manner. result - a puzzle and a special end. and the interesting fact is to be a Finnish story not only for team or production, script and actors but for its essence. a risky work with smart result. maybe, not exactly a Chrismass movie but useful as a bitter comedy with its own taste.