How I Ended This Summer

Name: How I Ended This Summer
Director: Alexey Popogrebsky
Released: 2010

Synopsis

Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.

90
The New York Times
Above all How I Ended This Summer is a merciless contemplation of the fragile human psyche under siege.
80
Salon
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.
75
New York Post
Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei) and Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel) give powerful performances, but the real star is Mother Nature.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
What stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.
60
Time Out
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.
60
Village Voice
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.