Picture Tree International has boarded international sales and debuted the trailer for Miia Tervo’s upcoming comedy “The Missile,” set to world premiere at Göteborg’s just-announced Nordic Competition.
Produced by Finland’s Kaisla Viitala and Daniel Kuitunen (Elokuvayhtio Komeetta) and co-produced by Estonia’s Johanna Paulson and Evelin Penttilä (Stellar Film), the film will be distributed in Scandinavia by Aurora Studios. Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Tommi Korpela, Pyry Kähkönen and Jarkko Niemi are also in the cast.
Tervo’s second feature after the award-winning “Aurora” – which opened the Swedish fest back in 2019 – teases a “uniquely crafted mix of political satire, heartfelt comedy and kitchen-sink drama, rooted in Northern brevity and melancholy,” according to its description.
Starring Oona Airola (pictured above in a first-look image), the film kicks off in Finkand’s Lapland in 1984, when an unexpected Soviet missile incident disrupts the tranquil life of single mother Niina.
Soon, she joins a...
Produced by Finland’s Kaisla Viitala and Daniel Kuitunen (Elokuvayhtio Komeetta) and co-produced by Estonia’s Johanna Paulson and Evelin Penttilä (Stellar Film), the film will be distributed in Scandinavia by Aurora Studios. Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Tommi Korpela, Pyry Kähkönen and Jarkko Niemi are also in the cast.
Tervo’s second feature after the award-winning “Aurora” – which opened the Swedish fest back in 2019 – teases a “uniquely crafted mix of political satire, heartfelt comedy and kitchen-sink drama, rooted in Northern brevity and melancholy,” according to its description.
Starring Oona Airola (pictured above in a first-look image), the film kicks off in Finkand’s Lapland in 1984, when an unexpected Soviet missile incident disrupts the tranquil life of single mother Niina.
Soon, she joins a...
- 1/9/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
French director Mikael Buch’s first offering Let My People Go is a lighthearted and occasionally thoughtful attempt to tease out the appeal of the ties that bind a gay and Jewish identity together. Buch’s stand-in protagonist, Ruben, is a French Jew living in bliss in Finland, land of Tom. The reference to the book of Exodus and the exilic condition in the title is about as biblical as the movie gets; but its dual meaning illuminates the pull of these two communities. Buch wants to let his people go – to leave behind the specificity and weight of an ethnic identity – but also wants their recognition of his freedom to be a gay man – to have them grant him freedom, too. This tension is played for comedy rather than pathos, which is for the better given how slight the drama ultimately is. The cartoonish situations, broad characterizations and color-saturated Pierre-et-Gilles aesthetic amplify each narrative stroke, resulting...
- 1/11/2013
- by Mark James
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Let My People Go!
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is living a similarly idyllic life. His lover, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi), is a blonde bombshell of a boyfriend, he finds steady work as a postal worker, his neighbours seem to like him, and nobody seems to mind that he’s homosexual. To Ruben, life is gay. This all changes when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions. He’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France, leaving behind his dream life for a hellish nightmare.
Back home, Ruben is reunited with his dysfunctional family, and as tensions come to a boil, secrets and harboured resentments are finally brought to the forefront. However, the film never elevates beyond genre conventions. The characters are stock, their problems are clichéd, and they way they resolve the conflicts are overly sentimental.
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is living a similarly idyllic life. His lover, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi), is a blonde bombshell of a boyfriend, he finds steady work as a postal worker, his neighbours seem to like him, and nobody seems to mind that he’s homosexual. To Ruben, life is gay. This all changes when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions. He’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France, leaving behind his dream life for a hellish nightmare.
Back home, Ruben is reunited with his dysfunctional family, and as tensions come to a boil, secrets and harboured resentments are finally brought to the forefront. However, the film never elevates beyond genre conventions. The characters are stock, their problems are clichéd, and they way they resolve the conflicts are overly sentimental.
- 5/16/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Let My People Go!
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
While confiding with his Rabbi, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) begins checking off his laundry list of foibles. From his precarious relationship with a schoolteacher in Finland to his exhausting family problems back home in France, Ruben becomes disillusioned with his fate and his faith, declaring how his life is “one bad Jewish joke”.
Let My People Go!, a film about Ruben’s said life problems, is, as predicted, exactly as he describes. Earnest while being endearing, it’s a cheerfully fun film that’s sadly unfunny.
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben is enjoying the good life, working as a cheerful postal carrier and living with his blonde bombshell boyfriend, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi). However, when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions, he’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France.
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
While confiding with his Rabbi, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) begins checking off his laundry list of foibles. From his precarious relationship with a schoolteacher in Finland to his exhausting family problems back home in France, Ruben becomes disillusioned with his fate and his faith, declaring how his life is “one bad Jewish joke”.
Let My People Go!, a film about Ruben’s said life problems, is, as predicted, exactly as he describes. Earnest while being endearing, it’s a cheerfully fun film that’s sadly unfunny.
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben is enjoying the good life, working as a cheerful postal carrier and living with his blonde bombshell boyfriend, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi). However, when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions, he’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France.
- 5/8/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
The first trailer and image from Finland's Jyri Kahonen new film, Hush (formerly Ja saapuu oikea yo) are here just in time for Cannes and we have a look at 'em for ya right here.
Hush stars Jemina Sillanpaa, Jarkko Niemi and Marti Suosalo.
Synopsis
When Sakari finds out that Veera – the woman he desperately loves and is about to marry – has been lying about her father being dead, he begins delving into her past. He finds the father and, well-intentioned, contrives to bring the two together. Little does he know, he is merely opening the door to a dark and harrowing history. Veera detests her father. She confronts Sakari, tells him she’d do anything for him, but what will he do for her? Sakari is pushed to the edge of an unwakeable nightmare when Veera starts to plot her father’s murder but the journey from scheming to...
Hush stars Jemina Sillanpaa, Jarkko Niemi and Marti Suosalo.
Synopsis
When Sakari finds out that Veera – the woman he desperately loves and is about to marry – has been lying about her father being dead, he begins delving into her past. He finds the father and, well-intentioned, contrives to bring the two together. Little does he know, he is merely opening the door to a dark and harrowing history. Veera detests her father. She confronts Sakari, tells him she’d do anything for him, but what will he do for her? Sakari is pushed to the edge of an unwakeable nightmare when Veera starts to plot her father’s murder but the journey from scheming to...
- 4/26/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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