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Released Year: 2010
Runtime: 84 minutes
Directors: Jalmari Helander
Writers: Jalmari Helander
Casts: Per Christian Ellefsen, Jorma Tommila, Tommi Korpela, Onni Tommila, Jonathan Hutchings, Rauno Juvonen, Ilmari Järvenpää, Risto Salmi, Jens Sivertsen, Sigmund Bøe, Olav Pedersen, Nils M. Iselvmo, Steinar Skogstad, Nils Nymo, Hjalmar Iselvmo, Steinar Tunes, Torgeir Fosberg, Tor Kvammen, Hans Prestbakmo, Alf Roald Pedersen, Nikolaj Alsterdal, Knut Osa Greger, Kjell Tore Nordli, Stein-Erik Olsen, Atle Kirkegård, Hans Lindgård, Einar Fagertun, Bjørn Pedersen, Tommy Svendsen, Peeter Jakobi, Chaton Anderson
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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Reviews
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The New York Times -
The focus of this bizarre Finnish fairy tale - as black as anything the Brothers Grimm could have dreamed up - is a sinister old codger who chews off ears and whose demon minion kidnaps innocent children. Ho ho no!
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The Hollywood Reporter -
A fiendishly entertaining Christmas yarn rooted in Northern European legend and lore, complete with a not-so-jolly old St. Nick informed more by the Brothers Grimm than Norman Rockwell.
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Empire -
If you're a bah-humbug type looking for an alternative to Santa Claus: The Movie or Miracle On 34th Street, this could be a holiday perennial. May be too strange for normal people, but weird kids will love it.
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Los Angeles Times -
What unfolds is a dark comic thriller and action-hero send-up, a strange alloy of daredevil helicopter maneuvers and night of the living elves. Captured in atmospheric widescreen camerawork, the end-of-the-world frozen landscape (actually Norway) is spectacular and spooky.
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The A.V. Club -
Slight but fun.
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Rare Exports A Christmas Tale (2010)
It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.
Rare Exports A Christmas Tale (2010)
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 2010
Runtime: 84 minutes
Directors: Jalmari Helander
Writers: Jalmari Helander
Casts: Per Christian Ellefsen, Jorma Tommila, Tommi Korpela, Onni Tommila, Jonathan Hutchings, Rauno Juvonen, Ilmari Järvenpää, Risto Salmi, Jens Sivertsen, Sigmund Bøe, Olav Pedersen, Nils M. Iselvmo, Steinar Skogstad, Nils Nymo, Hjalmar Iselvmo, Steinar Tunes, Torgeir Fosberg, Tor Kvammen, Hans Prestbakmo, Alf Roald Pedersen, Nikolaj Alsterdal, Knut Osa Greger, Kjell Tore Nordli, Stein-Erik Olsen, Atle Kirkegård, Hans Lindgård, Einar Fagertun, Bjørn Pedersen, Tommy Svendsen, Peeter Jakobi, Chaton Anderson
Storyline
It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.
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Reviews
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The New York Times -
The focus of this bizarre Finnish fairy tale - as black as anything the Brothers Grimm could have dreamed up - is a sinister old codger who chews off ears and whose demon minion kidnaps innocent children. Ho ho no!
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The Hollywood Reporter -
A fiendishly entertaining Christmas yarn rooted in Northern European legend and lore, complete with a not-so-jolly old St. Nick informed more by the Brothers Grimm than Norman Rockwell.
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Empire -
If you're a bah-humbug type looking for an alternative to Santa Claus: The Movie or Miracle On 34th Street, this could be a holiday perennial. May be too strange for normal people, but weird kids will love it.
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Los Angeles Times -
What unfolds is a dark comic thriller and action-hero send-up, a strange alloy of daredevil helicopter maneuvers and night of the living elves. Captured in atmospheric widescreen camerawork, the end-of-the-world frozen landscape (actually Norway) is spectacular and spooky.
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The A.V. Club -
Slight but fun.
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It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.