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Bookmark this pageIl Capitano (1991)
Director: Jan Troell
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From Time Out Film Guide
Jan Troell's plodding tale of a punkish teenage couple thieving their way across Finland suffers from memories of Malick's Badlands. The girl wants out after the boy kills her rabbits, but can't break the spell of the tyrannical psycho who winds up shooting a family. All we know about him is generic: he watches Sid Vicious doing 'My Way' on the motel TV, likes car crash video games, and cuts the cards to determine their destination. Inordinately slow, with endlessly similar highways and little faith in the audience's uptake. Unsensational.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Jan Troell
Producer: Jan Troell, Göran Setterberg
Cast: Antti Reini, Maria Heiskanen, Harri Mallenius, Berto Marklund, Antti Vierikko full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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