Product Details

• Actors: Sulevi Peltola, Mirtel Pohla, Maarja Jakobson, Taavi Eelmaa, Rain Tolk
• Directors: Veiko Õunpuu
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Strand Releasing
• DVD Release Date: September 22, 2009
• Run Time: 123 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002DOBPIM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,754 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Sugisball" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 09/22/2009 Run time: 123 minutes

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Lot Of Effort To Watch This Film, October 6, 2009

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Daniel G. Lebryk (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sugisball (DVD)

This film took a lot of concentration to actually follow and enjoy, because the film is like a photo montage (the type of picture that is actually made up of thousands of little tiny pictures). There is an overarching story, but the director chose to tell that story with 5 or 6 individual stories, seemingly randomly cut into that one main story.

This is a dark film covering love, hate, boredom, loss, and frustration all set in a bleak landscape. The film opens with a man standing on a high-rise balcony. It's hard to tell if he is on the brink of jumping, just standing outside for fresh air, buffeted by the wind, or just cold. He steps back into the apartment and he has a fight with the black haired woman of the DVD cover art. He tries to strangle her. And then finally gives up without killing her. The film then cuts to another couple, but maintains the thread of this first scene. The film moves from subplot to subplot in a measured manner, so there is a rhythm and comfort that each subplot will have some kind of resolution to the conflict.

The striking thing about this film is the ambiguity. That opening scene, the fight, were the characters exactly who you think they are? Was the man being some horrible animal trying to kill the woman? Or were there other forces or other reasons that drove him to that point? I enjoyed watching each subplot, playing along with the director and then thinking more about what happened and why it did. The film is a fine intellectual exercise. In harsh contrast to a film that tries to do the same subplot juggling but fails so miserably, LOOK.

The film is not rated. It is a fairly explicit film. There is strong language in the subtitles. There is one scene with two women and a man filmed through a mirror. The director had no fear of showing the naked man walking erect toward the camera and then returning to his partner. The film is intended for mature audiences.

The DVD included only the movie. The film is presented in Estonian with English subtitles.

The only way to describe this film is as a dark bleak film, there is something very compelling about the film. I enjoyed it very much. The mental exercise of finding the connection between the subplots was refreshing.

4.0 out of 5 stars Bleak film, August 29, 2011

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Brad Smith (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sugisball (DVD)

Don't watch this expecting some light entertainment. Here, we plunge into a gray landscape somewhere in post-Communist eastern Europe. The architecture is brutalist. The ground is muddy and wet. The sky is gray. The people are washed out, bored, psychotic, repressed, angry. We never quite know exactly the meaning of many scenes, but that is part of the challenge and the charm of this foreign film. Threads of storylines follow several characters as they search for some type of meaning or validation in their empty lives. One man beds scores of women. Another older man tries to seduce a young child, or does he? An upscale couple argue. The soundtrack is fantastic, a major plus, in that it complements what goes on on the screen.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring, October 7, 2011

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SanDiegoJesse - See all my reviews

This review is from: SUGISBALL (Amazon Instant Video)

Yes, I get it. But I still don't like it. This movie was just plain boring. Went nowhere and I didn't get past the first hour; cut my losses.