Tag: Finnish

• The Other Side of Hope Review: Something being said

  

  Damn, why is it that all the Nordic movies are the most determinedly stylish? If it ain’t Juho Kuosmanen buying up Europe’s entire stock of 16mm b/w film for The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki or Roy Andersson playing with the nature and texture of digital filmmaking in his Living Trilogy then…

  E Warren

  June 1, 2017

  Film, Review

  Aki Kaurismäki, Cinema, Comedy, Curzon Artificial Eye, Drama, Film, Films, Finland, Finnish, Foreign Language, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Reviews, Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Sputnik, The Match Factory, The Other Side of Hope, Three star

• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki: Just lovely

  

  See, just when I was getting disillusioned a good film about straight people comes along. Maybe there is some worth in them. A Finnish film about a 1960s boxer’s training in the lead up to a world championship bout stealths its way into being the best love movie in a while. Mainly because what the…

  E Warren

  April 28, 2017

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film, Films, Finland, Finnish, Foreign Language, Four Star, Jarkko Lahti, Juho Kuosmanen, Movie, Movies, Oona Airola, Opinion, Review, Reviews, Romance, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki