Stranger by the Lake
Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake is one of the best films of 2013, even though its distribution has mostly been... View Article
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Seafarers
The seafaring story about the travails of 17-year-old Jalmar ”Jallu” Yrjänen deepens into a tragic reminder of the finite nature... View Article
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Rosso
Excepting maybe Renny Harlin and Dome Karukoski, Mika Kaurismäki is Finland’s most international film director. Even his first feature-length film... View Article
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Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin has equally been regarded as the mother of all propaganda films and a masterful depiction of how the... View Article
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Orenda
Recently widowed mezzo-soprano Nora (Alma Pöysti) arrives on an island, eventually asking a reclusive priest (Pirkko Saisio) for a place... View Article
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Nobody’s Hero
Nobody’s Hero is perhaps the most anomalous entry among Alain Guiraudie’s filmography: a satirical comedy woven out of a bedchamber... View Article
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O
First, a little note: The title of the film is not the letter O, but rather a circle. It is... View Article
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Made in Germany
Germany, 1945. Life goes on in the partly French, partly US-American occupied Allgäu. People eg. want to watch films, now... View Article
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Montparnasse Bienvenüe
Léonor Serraille’s debut feature opens with a hysterical woman. First, this redheaded fury is raging in a stairwell, demanding to... View Article
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New Finnish Short Films
Helmi Donner: The Lightning Rod (Finland, 2025, 21 min) Finland’s contribution to this year’s Cannes Film Festival can be found in... View Article
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