this mawkish bummer about an ill-used teenage boy wandering around a surreally forbidding Helsinki is marred by a facile nihilism that trivializes the urban alienation it seeks to illuminate ...

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Film Review: ‘Concrete Night’ Reviewed on DVD, Los Angeles, Dec. 17, 2014. Running time: 96 MIN. (Original title: "Betoniyo") Production: (Finland) A Bufo production in association with ...

Posted in Film Concrete Night 1 hour 28 min by Drew Hunt October 7, 2014 August 24, 2021. Share this: Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky; ... Reader Recommends: FILM & TV.

The film, which premieres at Rotterdam and Göteborg festivals, is directed by Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo ("Concrete Night") and written by Pirkko Saisio.

Pirjo Honkasalo's "Concrete Night" and Dome Karukoski’s "Heart of a Lion" are among the 27 new films set to screen at the second edition of Finnish Film Affair, the professional forum running ...

LONDON — The Pula Film Festival, one of Croatia’s top movie events, wrapped Saturday with the Golden Arena for international film going to Pirjo Honkasalo’s elegant Finnish film noir ...

The American Society of Cinematographers has nominated “Concrete Night,” “The Immigrant” and “Under the Skin” for the Spotlight Award, an honor designed to bring attention to films ...

Finnish Oscar submission Concrete Night won Director of the Year for Pirjo Honkasalo and Producers of the Year for Mark Lwoff-Misha Jaaari at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Week.

In 2004, the Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo made a soulful, stylized documentary laying bare the toll taken by the Chechnya war on children on all sides of the conflict. Among its other virtues, the ...

In 2004, the Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo made a soulful, stylized documentary laying bare the toll taken by the Chechnya war on children on all sides of the conflict. Among its other virtues, the ...

Finnish Oscar submission Concrete Night won Director of the Year for Pirjo Honkasalo and Producers of the Year for Mark Lwoff-Misha Jaaari at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Week.