Set on a snowbound mountain top in a far corner
of Russia, Irish director Johnny O’Reilly’s
new film The Weather Station is a cracking
psychological thriller. Inhabited only by two
ageing meteorologists and a young teenage cook,
three men share the remote outpost with swirling
snowstorms and an elusive yeti.
When a mysterious couple arrives to explore
the caves in the area, their presence brings the
underlying tensions to the surface. When the wife
(Aleksandrova) returns alone and injured, she
reveals that she killed her husband in self defence.
Her confession fractures the uneasy balance
between the men and sets up each of them against
each other.
With its gleaming photography and the clever
shifts in time, there are echoes of Kubrick’s The
Shining, but working with a Russian cast and crew,
O’Reilly has fashioned an impressive
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