Rare Exports (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

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Oscilloscope Laboratories
Peeter Jakobi, left, with Per Christian Ellefsen, plays a sinister Santa in “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.”
Discovering a Sinister Santa in Finland
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 2, 2010

The Santa at the center of “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” is not the sort Mommy is likely to be kissing beneath the mistletoe (or anywhere else) this year. Rather, the focus of this bizarre Finnish fairy tale — as black as anything the Brothers Grimm could have dreamed up — is a sinister old codger who chews off ears and whose demon minion kidnaps innocent children. Ho ho no! More