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1 out of 3 people found the following review useful: Another disgrace to the Finnish film industry, 28 November 2008 Author: slayerholmes from Helsinki Finland
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It's hard to say if this isn't the most intolerable Finnish movie ever, the competition is very close. Admirable effort to be sure. The plot: fat man (Samuli Edelmann) with ponytail drinks and screws, on occasion he jumps around naked with no purpose; in a nutshell he acts all the time in a totally unpredictable manner and what he says doesn't most of the time make any sense. The catch is that this man is a priest! But wait a minute... so is virtually every character in this movie! One of them gets fired because he drinks TOO much but I guess Edelmann is compared to him an angel because he is despite all considered to the position of bishop! Edelmann's pretty wife is also a priest but still he can't abstain himself from cheating her with another female priest. Who has nothing to say about it afterwards. She becomes pregnant of course. She has nothing much to say about that either, just admit the situation. The background of the story is a city of Turku, but nothing is done to emphasize local color nor no-one speaks with that very distinctive accent they have there. Futile to ask, but just how believable is all this? So in the end everyone is happy as a one big family around bishop Edelmann, they are celebrating something and Edelmann's old & half-crazy father-in-law starts for some reason to howl annoyingly as hell. Which actually ends this mess quite suitably, after all.
5 out of 14 people found the following review useful: First miss of Louhimies, 19 December 2007 Author: holsu from Finland
This is such crap.Aku Louhimies is by far the most talented director in Finland. At least of the younger generation. I hadn't much expectations on this movie since it didn't seem to be as interesting as Louhimies earlier production. Still this was a huge disappointment.One big problem with Louhimies is his casting. He goes on with the same stars on and on and personally I'm bored with most of them, especially Samuli Edelmann, Laura Malmivaara (wife of the director) and Mikko Kouki. Not very satisfied seeing Matti Ristinen and Matleena Kuusniemi either. So it could be time to find a new acting team.The story is about a priest, his relationship to his wife and ambitions in his career. My tolerance broke down in the first half hour which to me mostly included running from one place to another. In between the running there was a lot of unnecessary nudity and drinking.It is somehow difficult to understand how an important director like Louhimies hasn't realized that the story sucks. When I saw the movie I couldn't avoid thinking, that he must have had thoughts about making a mistake.We can only forgive him for his mistake and hope he'll achieve his normal standard again soon.
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