Berlin-based Picture Tree Intl. has acquired the international sales rights, excluding the Nordic countries, for the Finnish daughter-father comedy “Butterflies” (Perhoset).
“Butterflies” is directed by Jenni Toivoniemi, based on a screenplay by Anna Brotkin.
Set against the backdrop of Finland’s vibrant Tango Festival, “Butterflies” follows the journey of Siiri, a world-weary 29-year-old woman, and her relentlessly optimistic father, Petri, as they navigate their own truths amidst the chaos. Ultimately, the true dance they engage in is one of self-discovery.
Siiri is played by Aksa Korttila, whose credits include “Sibelius Continuum,” “The Sixth Time” and “The Year of the Wolf.” Petri is played by Jani Volanen, who was in “Hatching,” “Homecoming” and “Dogs Don’t Wear Pants.” Leea Klemola, who appeared in “The Mine,” “The Midwife” and “Last Cowboy Standing,” plays Siiri’s politician boss, who is in the midst of a marital crises.
“Butterflies” is produced by Miia Haavisto of Tekele Productions,...
“Butterflies” is directed by Jenni Toivoniemi, based on a screenplay by Anna Brotkin.
Set against the backdrop of Finland’s vibrant Tango Festival, “Butterflies” follows the journey of Siiri, a world-weary 29-year-old woman, and her relentlessly optimistic father, Petri, as they navigate their own truths amidst the chaos. Ultimately, the true dance they engage in is one of self-discovery.
Siiri is played by Aksa Korttila, whose credits include “Sibelius Continuum,” “The Sixth Time” and “The Year of the Wolf.” Petri is played by Jani Volanen, who was in “Hatching,” “Homecoming” and “Dogs Don’t Wear Pants.” Leea Klemola, who appeared in “The Mine,” “The Midwife” and “Last Cowboy Standing,” plays Siiri’s politician boss, who is in the midst of a marital crises.
“Butterflies” is produced by Miia Haavisto of Tekele Productions,...
- 4/19/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Jani Volanen, Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila | Written by Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi | Directed by Hanna Bergholm
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
- 1/6/2023
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Repressed crises explode as a shy tweenager daughter’s nightmarish doppelganger emerges from mysterious ovum
Finnish writer-director Hanna Bergholm makes her feature debut with this bizarre and richly designed body-horror-satire about family dysfunction, body image and eating disorders. It’s a movie which borrows a bit from others – chiefly Spielberg’s Et – but there is something brashly distinctive here as well.
We start with an Instagrammably picture-perfect family of ineffable blondness. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a shy tweenager who is a gymnastics competitor. Maybe there are films where gymnastics are not a metaphor for misery and self-harm but this isn’t one of them. Tinja has a cheery dad (Jani Volanen) who is a bit of a beta-male chump in his shorts and his sweater tied around his neck, and she has a brattish kid brother, Matias (OIva Ollila). But she is being driven super hard by her icily ambitious...
Finnish writer-director Hanna Bergholm makes her feature debut with this bizarre and richly designed body-horror-satire about family dysfunction, body image and eating disorders. It’s a movie which borrows a bit from others – chiefly Spielberg’s Et – but there is something brashly distinctive here as well.
We start with an Instagrammably picture-perfect family of ineffable blondness. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a shy tweenager who is a gymnastics competitor. Maybe there are films where gymnastics are not a metaphor for misery and self-harm but this isn’t one of them. Tinja has a cheery dad (Jani Volanen) who is a bit of a beta-male chump in his shorts and his sweater tied around his neck, and she has a brattish kid brother, Matias (OIva Ollila). But she is being driven super hard by her icily ambitious...
- 9/14/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Who wants to be disturbed? Picturehouse in the UK has revealed one more official UK trailer for the Finnish creature feature horror film Hatching, from filmmaker Hanna Bergholm. This first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and opened in US cinemas back in April. It's available to watch now on VOD in the US, only opening in the UK this September. Considering this creepy film with some gnarly practical FX work in it is definitely worth watching, we're posting this final trailer anyway. 12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of the perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She brings it home and nurtures it. What hatches is beyond belief... There definitely ain't a bird in there. Starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen. It's described as "subversive, stomach-churning, and visionary, a body-horror...
- 7/22/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Jani Volanen, Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila | Written by Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi | Directed by Hanna Bergholm
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
- 6/24/2022
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Hello, everyone! It seems like there’s a constant supply of genre films coming out these days, which can make it hard to keep up with everything. Here’s a look at my thoughts on two recent indie projects, Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching and The Aviary from Jennifer Raite and Chris Cullari.
Enjoy!
The Hatching: As far as directorial debuts go, director Hanna Bergholm has done a phenomenal job of quickly establishing herself as one of the most intriguing new talents to watch in the genre space with Hatching. A harrowing exploration of the horrors and pressure that many (if not most) young folks experience throughout adolescence, screenwriter Ilja Rautsi does a great job of crafting a story that seamlessly meshes psychological horror with an unconventional creature feature, resulting in one of the most unique viewing experiences that I’ve had in 2022.
In Hatching, we’re introduced to young...
Enjoy!
The Hatching: As far as directorial debuts go, director Hanna Bergholm has done a phenomenal job of quickly establishing herself as one of the most intriguing new talents to watch in the genre space with Hatching. A harrowing exploration of the horrors and pressure that many (if not most) young folks experience throughout adolescence, screenwriter Ilja Rautsi does a great job of crafting a story that seamlessly meshes psychological horror with an unconventional creature feature, resulting in one of the most unique viewing experiences that I’ve had in 2022.
In Hatching, we’re introduced to young...
- 5/23/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Hatching is a 2022 Finnish body horror film directed by Hanna Bergholm and written by Ilja Rautsi. The film stars Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin, Saija Lentonen, Siiri Solalinna and Sophia Heikkilä and follows the story of 12-year-old Tinja and her mother, who has set high expectations for her which pressures Tinja. One day, Tinja finds an egg and secretly takes care of it until it unexpectedly hatches into her doppelganger. The film won the Grand Prix and the Prix du Jury Jeunes at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer 2022. The film has received generally positive reviews so
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- 5/10/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Hatching, the debut feature by Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, is a horror film that stands out for its creature feature and coming-of-age elements. The protagonist Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a teenager who lives with her mother (Sophia Heikkilä), her father (Jani Volanen) and her brother (Oiva Ollila). They all participate in the vlogs recorded by the mom, sharing their perfect life in the suburbs. A sequence at the beginning, when a black bird bursts into the family home causing havoc – it is caught and the mother breaks its neck mercilessly – shows a hint of the dark side that underlies a seemingly ideal family. Tinja practices gymnastics but her mother, an extremely strict and inconsiderate former figure skater, asks her to prioritize training above...
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- 5/3/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – What came first, the girl or the egg? The new Finnish film “Hatching” – a Sundance Film Fest sensation – is both answering that question and getting a general release in the U.S. on April 29th, and is one of the most effective horror films of the year so far. Writer Ilja Rautsi collaborated with director Hanna Bergholm to create the story of a family who is experiencing their daughter’s adolescent emergence through a creature the girl has hatched from an egg.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Tinja (Siiri Solanlinna) is a on-the-edge of adolescence gymnast in a family whose mother (Sophia Heikkilä) pretends through social media that they are perfect. That “perfection” includes a ruthless killing of a black bird that infiltrates their house, and Tinja’s retrieving of the bird corpse leads her to an egg she decides to hatch. A supernatural force melds Tinja’s psyche to the hatching, an...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Tinja (Siiri Solanlinna) is a on-the-edge of adolescence gymnast in a family whose mother (Sophia Heikkilä) pretends through social media that they are perfect. That “perfection” includes a ruthless killing of a black bird that infiltrates their house, and Tinja’s retrieving of the bird corpse leads her to an egg she decides to hatch. A supernatural force melds Tinja’s psyche to the hatching, an...
- 4/29/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
“Turning Red” presented a tear-jerking, Disney-friendly take on female puberty. Now it’s time to introduce its hideous, terrifying, ballsy cousin: the Finnish horror movie “Hatching.”
This debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, which originally premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast in a crushing culture of perfection, and Alli, the bird monster she unwittingly hatches from a backyard egg. It is subversive, stomach-churning and visionary, a body-horror film that doubles as a fable of femininity gone wrong.
The film opens on shots of Tinja doing gymnastics stretches in the living room spliced with birds-eye footage of her idyllic suburb. This slips into a montage for the family vlog Tinja’s mother (Sophia Heikkilä), manages, called “Lovely Everyday Life.” As the family poses contentedly on the couch, a crow careens into the house and smashes everything breakable in the living room. The matriarch...
This debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, which originally premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast in a crushing culture of perfection, and Alli, the bird monster she unwittingly hatches from a backyard egg. It is subversive, stomach-churning and visionary, a body-horror film that doubles as a fable of femininity gone wrong.
The film opens on shots of Tinja doing gymnastics stretches in the living room spliced with birds-eye footage of her idyllic suburb. This slips into a montage for the family vlog Tinja’s mother (Sophia Heikkilä), manages, called “Lovely Everyday Life.” As the family poses contentedly on the couch, a crow careens into the house and smashes everything breakable in the living room. The matriarch...
- 4/28/2022
- by Lena Wilson
- The Wrap
Finland has responded to a spike in demand for its content with a slew of new series. As revealed by Laura Kuulasmaa, executive director at Audiovisual Producers Finland (Apfi), over 30 will be released this year alone, a 20% uptick on 2018.
“Compared to eight, ten years ago, when there were maybe only five scripted series per year, the increase has been huge,” she tells Variety ahead of French TV festival Series Mania’s “Focus on Finland” showcase.
The Film in Finland cash rebate has facilitated international investments and growth of the budgets, she notes.
Matti Paunio, head of production at the Finnish Film Foundation, adds:
“I think the biggest trend overall is the diversification of subjects and points of view. Scripts and series are more courageous, they take on different genres more often than ever. Production is booming, but apart from the quantity, we are also providing quality.”
According to Paunio, about 47% of writers,...
“Compared to eight, ten years ago, when there were maybe only five scripted series per year, the increase has been huge,” she tells Variety ahead of French TV festival Series Mania’s “Focus on Finland” showcase.
The Film in Finland cash rebate has facilitated international investments and growth of the budgets, she notes.
Matti Paunio, head of production at the Finnish Film Foundation, adds:
“I think the biggest trend overall is the diversification of subjects and points of view. Scripts and series are more courageous, they take on different genres more often than ever. Production is booming, but apart from the quantity, we are also providing quality.”
According to Paunio, about 47% of writers,...
- 3/18/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) has the perfect family. The kind of family who would no doubt have made Adolf Hitler shed a single, wistful tear. It’s because of this that Mother makes a living placing her family’s unblemished, Aryan faces in front of a selfie camera and documenting their lives for all the world to see. In their crisp, pastel pink-and-white garments that they flounce around within the walls of their toy dollhouse home—the latter of which the camera establishes by floating around the exterior to mimic drone shots Mother uses in her family vlogs—the nuclear family at the center of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s rattling feature debut Hatching projects an image of unattainable attainability. It’s the same sort that modern-day vloggers and influencers profit from in real life. Smiling faces, tousled hair, audience-acceptable kisses and hugs, restrained displays of affection. The kind of family...
- 1/23/2022
- by Brianna Zigler
- The Film Stage
The family at the center of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s unnerving, instantly memorable horror flick “Hatching,” on first blush, are their own kind of perfect. This quartet of influencers, who sell their idyllic homelife to their legion of followers, are led by a ruthlessly ambitious mother (Sophia Heikkilä), while her husband (Jani Volanen), an amiable oaf, chooses to ignore her worst tendencies.
Continue reading ‘Hatching’ Review: Unnerving, Smartly-Constructed Influencer Horror Introduces A Bold New Voice In The Genre [Sundance] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Hatching’ Review: Unnerving, Smartly-Constructed Influencer Horror Introduces A Bold New Voice In The Genre [Sundance] at The Playlist.
- 1/23/2022
- by Robert Daniels
- The Playlist
Ahead of its virtual world premiere as part of the Midnight lineup at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the official trailer for Hatching has been revealed!
Below, you can witness the birth of an otherworldly creature in the official trailer for Hatching, which will have its virtual premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22nd at 11:55pm Mt before IFC Midnight releases it theatrically and on Digital/VOD on April 29th.
Directed by Hanna Bergholm from a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, Hatching stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen.
"12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief."
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Below, you can witness the birth of an otherworldly creature in the official trailer for Hatching, which will have its virtual premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22nd at 11:55pm Mt before IFC Midnight releases it theatrically and on Digital/VOD on April 29th.
Directed by Hanna Bergholm from a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, Hatching stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen.
"12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief."
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- 1/13/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hatching Trailer — Hanna Bergholm‘s Hatching (2022) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Hatching trailer stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen. Crew Ilja Rautsi wrote the screenplay for Hatching. Stein Berge Svendsen created the music for the film. Jarkko T. Laine crafted the cinematography for the film. Hatching Poster Hatching Movie [...]
Continue reading: Hatching (2022) Movie Trailer: Gymnast Siiri Solalinna brings home a Giant Egg in Hanna Bergholm’s Film...
Continue reading: Hatching (2022) Movie Trailer: Gymnast Siiri Solalinna brings home a Giant Egg in Hanna Bergholm’s Film...
- 1/12/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Dogs don't stand on two feet." Rlje has released an official US trailer for the extra kinky Bdsm film from Finland titled Dogs Don't Wear Pants, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. It also stopped by the Toronto Strasbourg, Sitges, and Helsinki Film Festivals last fall. Described as an "affecting and absurd dramedy", Dogs Don't Wear Pants is about a guilt-stricken widower who discovers that a demanding dominatrix might be able to give him the therapy he needs. A film about how brutal Bdsm and pup play might actually be the therapy certain people need. Starring Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ester Geislerová, Ilona Huhta, Jani Volanen, and Oona Airola. With so much funky and awkward footage, they can cut together such kinky and amusing trailers for this film. And even if you don't like Bdsm (or maybe you do?), you may be into this film anyway.
- 8/24/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
IFC Midnight has acquired out of the Cannes Virtual Market the North American rights to “Hatching,” a body horror and psychological drama from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, the distributor announced Monday.
“Hatching” is the debut film from Bergholm with a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, and IFC Midnight will give the film its festival premiere in 2021.
The movie explores the themes of control and keeping up appearances, and it tells the story of 12-year-old gymnast Tinja who tries desperately to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family life to the world through her popular blog. Then, one night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, she keeps it warm. And when it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
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“Hatching” stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin and Oiva Ollila.
“Hatching” is the debut film from Bergholm with a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, and IFC Midnight will give the film its festival premiere in 2021.
The movie explores the themes of control and keeping up appearances, and it tells the story of 12-year-old gymnast Tinja who tries desperately to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family life to the world through her popular blog. Then, one night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, she keeps it warm. And when it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
Also Read: Dave Franco's 'The Rental' Gets Honks and Headlight Flashes at Drive-In Movie Premiere
“Hatching” stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin and Oiva Ollila.
- 6/22/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Hanna Bergholm’s feature directorial debut set to launch at major 2021 international festival.
In what is one of the first acquisitions of the virtual Cannes market, IFC Midnight has beaten out rival bids to acquire North American rights from Wild Bunch and CAA to Finnish coming-of-age body horror Hatching.
The distributor pounced after watching a promo and the deal closed late on Friday night (June 19). The plan is to launch Hanna Bergholm’s feature directorial debut at a major international festival in 2021.
Hatching is in post and centres on Tinja, a 12-year-old gymnast desperate to please her mother, a woman...
In what is one of the first acquisitions of the virtual Cannes market, IFC Midnight has beaten out rival bids to acquire North American rights from Wild Bunch and CAA to Finnish coming-of-age body horror Hatching.
The distributor pounced after watching a promo and the deal closed late on Friday night (June 19). The plan is to launch Hanna Bergholm’s feature directorial debut at a major international festival in 2021.
Hatching is in post and centres on Tinja, a 12-year-old gymnast desperate to please her mother, a woman...
- 6/22/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Finland’s top streaming service Elisa Viihde has ordered “Summer of Sorrow,” a high-concept mystery thriller series that’s being produced by Rabbit Films and will be sold by Keshet Intl. around the world.
The 10-episode show, created Jani Volanen (“M/S Romantic”) and set in the early 1980s, takes place in an idyllic Finnish suburb of Munkkivuori where a small child disappears. With little support from the police, concerned parents take justice into their own hands and launch a desperate hunt for the child.
The events will be depicted from the perspective of the local children, who are eavesdropping on the adults, gossiping and drawing their own conclusions about what happened to the missing child.
“Summer of Sorrow” is expected to start shooting in May in Helsinki. Rabbit Films’ Minna Haapkylä and Olli
Suominen will be serving as executive producers.
“Finnish fiction is emerging as the hotbed for distinctive drama from the Nordic region,...
The 10-episode show, created Jani Volanen (“M/S Romantic”) and set in the early 1980s, takes place in an idyllic Finnish suburb of Munkkivuori where a small child disappears. With little support from the police, concerned parents take justice into their own hands and launch a desperate hunt for the child.
The events will be depicted from the perspective of the local children, who are eavesdropping on the adults, gossiping and drawing their own conclusions about what happened to the missing child.
“Summer of Sorrow” is expected to start shooting in May in Helsinki. Rabbit Films’ Minna Haapkylä and Olli
Suominen will be serving as executive producers.
“Finnish fiction is emerging as the hotbed for distinctive drama from the Nordic region,...
- 2/24/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
"I've met a nice lady." Time to get kinky. Tiff has debuted an international promo trailer for the Finnish film Dogs Don't Wear Pants, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar, and is showing in Toronto next month. Described as an "affecting and absurd dramedy", Dogs Don't Wear Pants is about a guilt-stricken widower who discovers that a demanding dominatrix might be able to give him the therapy he needs. A film about how brutal Bdsm and pup play might actually be the therapy certain people need. Starring Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ester Geislerová, Ilona Huhta, Jani Volanen, and Oona Airola. This funky Finnish film is still seeking international distribution after Cannes, and hopefully a few brave cinephiles will give it a look up in Toronto. I love the title, and from this trailer the awkward comedy seems to elevate this story in just the right way.
- 8/25/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Boxing drama wins eight prizes including best film.
Period boxing drama The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki dominated the field at Friday’s Jussi Awards (Mar 24), Finland’s primary national film awards.
The film, which debuted at Cannes Film Festival 2016 in Un Certain Regard and was Finland’s submission in last year’s foreign language Oscar race, scooped half of the 16 awards on the night, including best picture.
It also took best director for Juho Kuosmanen, best actor for Jarkko Lahti, best supporting actress for Oona Airola, best editing for Jussi Rautaniemi, costume design for Sari Suominen, cinematography for J-p Passi, and make-up for Salla Yli-Luopa.
Elsewhere, drama The Mine won best screenplay for Pekko Pesonen and best supporting actor for Jani Volanen. Best actress went to Linnea Skog for Little Wing, and best documentary was presented to Katja Gauriloff’s Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest.
Best production design went to Santtu Toivola for Flowers...
Period boxing drama The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki dominated the field at Friday’s Jussi Awards (Mar 24), Finland’s primary national film awards.
The film, which debuted at Cannes Film Festival 2016 in Un Certain Regard and was Finland’s submission in last year’s foreign language Oscar race, scooped half of the 16 awards on the night, including best picture.
It also took best director for Juho Kuosmanen, best actor for Jarkko Lahti, best supporting actress for Oona Airola, best editing for Jussi Rautaniemi, costume design for Sari Suominen, cinematography for J-p Passi, and make-up for Salla Yli-Luopa.
Elsewhere, drama The Mine won best screenplay for Pekko Pesonen and best supporting actor for Jani Volanen. Best actress went to Linnea Skog for Little Wing, and best documentary was presented to Katja Gauriloff’s Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest.
Best production design went to Santtu Toivola for Flowers...
- 3/27/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Blind Spot Pictures
PALM SPRINGS -- Prostitution provides a quick fix -- and an emotional undoing -- for an unemployed husband and father in A Man's Job, the Academy Award submission from Finland. With this well-observed second feature, writer-director Aleksi Salmenpera (Producing Adults) intensifies his exploration of intimacy and alienation in contemporary relationships. The drama, which recently screened at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, deserves wider Art House exposure.
Tommi Korpela is perfect as Juha, a strapping factory worker in his 30s who hides his layoff and monthslong job search from his listless wife, Katja (Maria Heiskanen). After the alarm wakes him and he has checked her supply of antidepressants, he heads for a local fast food cafe to brainstorm with Olli (Jani Volanen), a cab driver with an anxious gaze. The rivalrous chemistry between them is one of the film's most fascinating elements, and the two actors are never less than compelling as characters who are both lying to themselves. However medicated she might be, Katja's depression is in a sense the truest response in this sometimes comic scenario of disconnection.
Olli, who pretends not to be drinking anymore but still has trouble with the breathalyzer on his taxi, happens to be the father of Akseli (Konsta Pylkkonen), the boy Juha is raising as his own, along with his and Katja's two younger kids. In short order, he also becomes Juha's driver and pimp. On a handyman gig, a well-to-do woman offers Juha a higher hourly wage than he's ever dreamed of, for work that has nothing to do with the renovation of her house. Rediscovering the confidence his unemployment and troubled home life have drained from him, Juha sees prostitution as a simple solution.
But his encounters (all based on journalistic investigations) are often disquieting: the neediness and pain of neglected older women, the violent rage of an obese client, the mostly chaste curiosity of a 19-year-old girl with Down syndrome. Korpela embodies Juha's deepening unease and the heedlessness with which he's heading for a fall. Olli, meanwhile, awkwardly steps in to the widening gap on the home front. "Man's Job" essentially is about the disintegration of a marriage, and its coda, jarring at first, offers a glimmer of break-it-and-reset-it hope.
Blind Spot Pictures
PALM SPRINGS -- Prostitution provides a quick fix -- and an emotional undoing -- for an unemployed husband and father in A Man's Job, the Academy Award submission from Finland. With this well-observed second feature, writer-director Aleksi Salmenpera (Producing Adults) intensifies his exploration of intimacy and alienation in contemporary relationships. The drama, which recently screened at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, deserves wider Art House exposure.
Tommi Korpela is perfect as Juha, a strapping factory worker in his 30s who hides his layoff and monthslong job search from his listless wife, Katja (Maria Heiskanen). After the alarm wakes him and he has checked her supply of antidepressants, he heads for a local fast food cafe to brainstorm with Olli (Jani Volanen), a cab driver with an anxious gaze. The rivalrous chemistry between them is one of the film's most fascinating elements, and the two actors are never less than compelling as characters who are both lying to themselves. However medicated she might be, Katja's depression is in a sense the truest response in this sometimes comic scenario of disconnection.
Olli, who pretends not to be drinking anymore but still has trouble with the breathalyzer on his taxi, happens to be the father of Akseli (Konsta Pylkkonen), the boy Juha is raising as his own, along with his and Katja's two younger kids. In short order, he also becomes Juha's driver and pimp. On a handyman gig, a well-to-do woman offers Juha a higher hourly wage than he's ever dreamed of, for work that has nothing to do with the renovation of her house. Rediscovering the confidence his unemployment and troubled home life have drained from him, Juha sees prostitution as a simple solution.
But his encounters (all based on journalistic investigations) are often disquieting: the neediness and pain of neglected older women, the violent rage of an obese client, the mostly chaste curiosity of a 19-year-old girl with Down syndrome. Korpela embodies Juha's deepening unease and the heedlessness with which he's heading for a fall. Olli, meanwhile, awkwardly steps in to the widening gap on the home front. "Man's Job" essentially is about the disintegration of a marriage, and its coda, jarring at first, offers a glimmer of break-it-and-reset-it hope.
- 1/11/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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