Kalle Salonen

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Hustlers 2010 (4.7)

The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
Kalle Salo

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Ja tomust' alkaa avaruus 2024

In a rural village in the early 1900s, two young men in love, Toivo and Aarne, spend their summers swimming in lakes and reading poetry. But the approaching autumn means Aarne's departure days away for university and the desire of Toivo's father to send his own son to a distant village as a ring, jeopardising the lovers' plans for a reunion.