Pirjo Honkasalo

TIFF 2013 | Concrete Night (Pirjo Honkasalo, Finland/Denmark/Sweden)—Masters

By Michael Sicinski If Pirjo Honkasalo was on the radar of North American cinephiles recently, it was probably with The Three Rooms of Melancholia, her acclaimed 2004 documentary about the Chechen War. Concrete Night is her first fiction feature since Fire-Eater in 1998, and although there’s no question that Honkasalo exhibits a master’s control of…
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