Juha

" The movie coheres around the intense performance of Ms. Outinen, a gaunt, hollow-eyed actress who, while too old to pass as the farmer's daughter, projects a screen presence that suggests Giulietta Masina as dreamed by Edvard Munch. As the story darkens, the camera engulfs Ms. Outinen in shadows that deepen and lengthen until they threaten to swallow her up. The dance between actress and camera yields a bravura, haunted performance that at the very least qualifies Norma Desmond's declaration that movie actresses don't have faces any more. "

— Stephen Holden de NY Times

" For true Kaurismakian austerity, the film to see is the singular Juha, which dispenses with dialogue altogether. "

— Mark Jenkins de Washington Post