Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

This Finnish film has 24 days to prove there is a Santa.

From a certain angle, "Rare Exports" might sound like a typical heartwarming yuletide yarn: It's 24 days till Christmas, and a precocious young boy is determined to prove that Santa exists, while his hard-working widowed father suffers a major business setback. But the nog is spiked with twisted black humor in this frosty Finnish fantasy. The hero is a take-charge kid (Onni Tommila) who lives in northern Finland with his reindeer-hunter father (played by his real-life dad, Jorma Tommila). [...]

di Sheri Linden, articolo completo (1562 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 6 dicembre 2010