How I Ended This Summer

A film from Russia, not sure how or where I heard of it but somehow it ended up on my Netflix queue.  At many points during this movie I found myself reaching for the remote to turn it off, but something kept staying my hand.  Maybe it was the cinematography, maybe it was the innate need to know what will happen to these two men isolated in the Arctic, or maybe the remote was just a hairsbreadth too far from my reach.  Whatever it was, I made it all the way through and I feel that is an accomplishment in itself.  A strong character study, but yet with essentially no dialogue, this film relied heavily on the landscape to tell the story of naivete, isolation, and betrayal.