#Finnish movie

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TYTÖT TYTÖT TYTÖT (2022) dir. Alli Haapasalo Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down. (link in title)

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Harjunpää & pahan pappi (2010)

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Rare Exports (2010)

The real Santa is being dug out of a mountain in Finland. However, this Santa is not nice, nor are his little helpers.

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Varjoja paratiisissa (Shadows of Paradise)

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Sisu (2023) Official Red Band Trailer - Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie

Opens in US 28th of April 2023. 

It's not about who is the strongest. It's about not giving up.

And destroying nazis.

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I normally never ever watch or even like Finnish movies (or series) but out of curiosity I just watched Finnish movie called Sisu* (this movie was like a Finnish version of Rambo :'D) and, heck, I liked it! I liked it A LOT!

If you can stand blood, violence, "animal death" (no real animals, of course) etc. then I HIGHLY recommend you to watch it too! However, don't expect the main character to talk much because, well, as a Finn he doesn't. He says only 2 sentences in 90 minutes! :'D But that's how we Finnish people are, ahah!

You can watch Sisu here for FREE with English subtitles even that main part of the movie is with spoken English as well:

*Sisu has no straight translation to English but sisu is like... whatever comes at you, you WILL go through it, NO MATTER WHAT. You WON'T give up, no matter what. Giving up is out of question. You push through.

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"SISU is a Finnish word that cannot be translated. It means a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination. SISU manifests itself when all hope is lost.”

Set in 1945, SISU tells the story of an ex-soldier, who discovers gold in the deep wilderness of Finland. On his way into the city, brutal Na*is on a scorched-earth mission discovers his treasure trove. The relentless soldier must go through outrageous lengths to get his loot home, even if it means killing every last Na*i.

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Uma história real é a base desse filme cheio de reviravoltas: "Lago Bodom" (2016)

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Fallen Leaves (Finland, 2023) - love in the mundane

Oh, this one I loved! Dark, dry humour and omnipresent awkwardness - yummy! I wonder how come I am bored with all the disturbing and sad movies, not touched anymore by them but now find what is ordinary and turning out beautiful, filled with intimacy and connection between two people beautiful! And this one, this one is just masterpiece.

I was a bit resistant to go see that movie. It is placed in a very plain, grey scenery, simple, ordinary life. That just sounds to me freaking scary, that is what I tirelessly attempt to escape from, at all cost. Gosh, please let me avoid what regular people do, let me be outside of all that. Let me touch what is beautiful, what is higher, better, what is more. Please don't tell me that is all I can have. How I can find love in this grey world? How I can find romance and real, pure feeling? This just is not possible. I have to reach the place that is somehow better, more colourful, more interesting, just different, more valuable, of course, because only in such place love is possible. Love, fullfillment and beauty. It has to be filled with interesting ideas, novelty, options, potential. There needs to be vastness and creative change, movement, flow. Do you know what that movie did? Do you know? It placed love, the beautiful, real love, in a simple, and even depressing scenery! In the grey, dreadful, deprived of fascinating, new options world, it placed real feeling, connection and warmth. In my heart, where I had so little place for the simple spaces like that, I got more room now. And you know what? The love in the movie was that beautiful specifically because it was possible to find it in between grey blocks, boredom, mundane daily activities and simple people! Love can be found everywhere! Yes, go for shiny diamonds like landscapes, rich with polished surfaces, no wonder you will find there a romance too, the landscape makes you, it is rather difficult to do otherwise. But come on! Find love working in the supermarket, or as a physical worker, living in a ugly, dirty worker room, drinking during breaks and being fired for that. being dragged by a friend for a stupid karaoke, taking your only good shoes, making your hair look reasonably good. Then being at the bar, seeing her, and not even saying a word. You feel already, that you could connect, but you lack the confidence, you don't dare to make that step, to say something. What a chance. Moving through days, depressed, helping yourself with alcohol, then seeing her, awaken from the lethargy, from a long dream. You know she is as alone and as different as you are. She of course does not speak either. Ah, beautiful!

Then, searching for her, because it is after all stronger than you, the feeling that was born when you saw her. You go near that bar every evening hoping you will see her. You keep missing each other but one evening you meet her, she came hoping to see you too. That is one awkward occurrence. Another reason why I love this movie.

How he shakes her hand, instead of kissing her goodbye. How he looses her number. How she buys plates and makes that salad for him, and how they eat in awkward silence at the small table at her place. How they don't even touch each other when they sit at the sofa. How they are unsure of themselves. How they don't know how to reach to another, how they wait. How they barely express anything, but when they do, it means something. How nothing is overdone. And how that makes me now want to cry, because I know it is so imperfect, so uncomfortable and so plain, yet at the same time so pure and real that I am not sure I will ever have a chance to experience anything similar.

They loose each other and they find each other.

Love prevails.

Love despite of the mundane.

Writing reveals to me again, how hopelessly romantic I am. And how, even though I try, I am not able to open my heart. How I could open it only to something pure. How I protect it from the polluted love. Sexual desire and superficiality.

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KELET (2020) dir. Susani Mahadura Kelet is a young Somali trans woman who dreams of becoming a Vogue model. Leaving her family in Manchester to return to her childhood home in Finland, she draws on the support of her friends in the ballroom community to immerse herself in Helsinki's glamour while building a new life for herself, facing her fears and her past, and following her dreams. (link in title)

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i know i’m like. two weeks late to the party BUT they meant everything to me this eurovision so :’)

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please look at this!! please look at the kitten please please PLEASE

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Sisu - spoiler-free review

It's coming to you elsewhere in April 2023 but I have seen it twice now. First with Her and then with my son and one of my best friends

I am talking about Sisu.

If you have seen the trailer you know it is set in 1944 Finland has fought two wars against the soviets and is fighting now against retreating nazis in Lapland who are trying to get to Norway.

A lone aging gold miner has left the war but finds gold in the wilderness. As he tries to get back to civilization he runs into group of nazis who decide to rob him and take his gold.

A big mistake.

That is all one needs to know. And while viewers don't need to know history or Finnish language the name means a thing in Finnish. An actual concept/ term.

No matter what, odds are against you, everything hurts and the wisest option would be to give up. But you don't.

And hey they kill nazis in this movie. Who does not want see nazis killed? Exactly

Might see it a third time

Trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k4QAItiSA