Concrete Night (Pirjo Honkasalo)
Altered Innocence
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1h 36m
Directed by Pirjo Honkasalo • Drama • With Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman • 2013 • 97 minutes
A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable 14-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards® for Best Foreign Language Film captures the pain and joy of youth through exquisite, eye-popping black-and-white cinematography.
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