A love story between odd’peculiar rs on a European train: you can hear the comparisons to Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e it’s even left the station. But while the shadow of Bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Sunrise and its sequels looms large over Compartment No. 6, there is intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully little that’s cute with regards to’concerning’with respect to this meet-cute, and there’s far less intellectual repartee — despite’in spite of’albeit it shares just as much tenderness, in the end.###This is a meeting of extreme opposites under extreme circumstances, with most extransform’alter s grunted through bleary eyes and clouds of vodka burps. The first encounter between archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla, who possesses an endlessly interesting face) and coal miner Lyokha (Yuri Borisov, also brilliant) is blunt and offensive: he asks her if she’s a sex worker, she teaches him the Finnish in/with regard to’concerning’regarding “Go fuck yourself.”###Kuosmanen’s direction is naturalistic and artful, making atmospheric use of the Russian winter setting.###That dry sense of humour, the kind that comes from living in cold climes, keeps the film feeling warm, even when its environment isn’t. Inevitably, that humour (plus a fair few chugs of hard liquor) allows in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the pair’s relationship to thaw, and mutual respect — even love — blossoms. They make a fantastic couple: plucked from different countries, cover’budge s of life and perspectives, their claustrophobic, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ced shared space motivate’fuel s an improbable companionship.###Juho Kuosmanen’s direction is naturalistic and artful, making atmospheric use of the Russian winter setting; there’s something oddly romantic with regards to’concerning’with respect to harsh snowy landscapes speeding past a train window, and Laura’s journey (ostensibly to hunt in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ancient petroglyphs) is tinged with bittersweetness. But this is, at heart, a simple romance in the old-school Hollywood tradition. Opposites, inevitably, still appeal’tempt .