Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale R
He knows if you've been naughty. He knows if you've been nice. And he doesn't give a sh*t.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 25, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Per Christian Ellefsen | |
Directed by | Jalmari Helander | |
Screenwriting by | Jalmari Helander | |
Screenplay by | Jalmari Helander | |
Composition by | Miska Seppa & Juri Seppa | |
Director of Photography: | Mika Orasmaa |
Entertainment Reviews:
Not quite as funny as you'd expect if you have seen the shorts, the film largely plays it straight.
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Exquisite Terror
The flaws of Rare Export offer an important reminder that looking good on YouTube does not provide qualifications for a bigger screen.
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indieWire
Rating: B --
If you and/or the young folks in your life like spooky folklore, snowy menace and brave young heroes, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale fills the bill.
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Assignment X
Rating: 4.5/5 --
An unnerving, funny and inventive Santa origins story set on the border between Finland and Russia, it reminds us that most fairy stories are truly dark. No one seems surprised when the border between myth and modernity breaks down too.
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Caution Spoilers
4 stars out of 5 -- Finnish director Jalmari Helander has created a masterful mash-up of THE THING and a really Grimm fairy tale.
Total Film
Rating: 3/5 --
[A] deliciously loopy oddball of a film.
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The Age (Australia)
If you need something to wash the taste of good cheer out of your mouth, you won't want to miss Rare Exports.
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io9.com
Product Description:
Christmas takes a turn for the grim when a team of Finnish archaeologists unearth a man who appears to be Old St. Nick, only to find that the legends of a jolly, gentle cherub couldn't be further from the truth. Enraged at the multinational corporation that underwrote the excavation for disrupting his village's annual reindeer roundup -- one of the few yearly events that help to keep the local economy afloat -- single father and reindeer hunter Rauno (Jorma Tommila) is shocked when his frail son, Pietari (Onni Tommila), makes a curious connection between the high-profile dig and the story of Father Christmas. The local reindeer herd has been viciously slaughtered, and now all of Pietari's friends are vanishing without a trace. When Pietari looks beyond pop-culture history to unlock the real truth about Santa Claus, he learns that his young friends have every reason to fear this Christmas. By the time Pietari realizes what's happening in his small town, however, it's already too late; Santa's helpers are closing in fast, and this year the naughty kids will be running scared.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 84,634
- UPC: 896602002340
- Shipping Weight: 0.38/lbs (approx)
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