Set in an ugly small town in Czech, near the Polish border, a local girl goes missing. The subsequent mystery of her whereabouts/fate introduce us to an array of locals who are being bought out by a mining company. There is some resistance to this but their quality of life is so dire that you can't really sympathize with those who are unwilling to let go of their roots. The authenticity of the cast and their habitat is such that I was almost convinced that this was a documentary. Everyone has a story. There are no cardboard cutouts here and as we discover, and they are all suspects. The paucity of their standard of living is a shock but this is not a depressing show. Compared elsewhere to The Missing and The Killing, it is compulsive viewing and the actor who plays the missing girl's father turns in a tour de force performance.
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Review of Pustina
