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Post by angel on Nov 10, 2006 23:10:19 GMT 2
I've got to say that I'm really curious to see Vares2. Ok mostly that is because Norther play 2 songs in the movie but I saw the trailer and it seemed interesting enough.
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Post by lumi on Nov 11, 2006 13:19:24 GMT 2
One Finnish point of view to Finnish movies: Often it feels like in Finnish movies the same actors act the same roles over and over again in the same directors movies.. It is getting quite boring and when I was a bit younger I had a time when I actually thought that all Finnish movies just suck. Well, now I think that many Finnish movies suck but there are some really good ones too. Aki Kaurismäki for example has succeeded in doing movies with the same actors. And his movies are good I think. He has his own style that he has developed and it still works. Jadesoturi is a new, fresh, very good and finally brings something new! That I can warmly recommed to every one! It probally the best Finnsh movie I have seen (though it is partly Chinese)!
One a bit older movie I watched about a week ago was Lumikuningatar ('Snow queen') that based on H.C.Andersens story. It is from a year 1988 (or something very close to that?) and I think I have watched or tried to watch it when I was little. The beginning was really scary! I think that it has been too scary for me. But it was great! The sets are amazing and the visual look is a big part of the story. The end is a bit artistic but in a funny way it worked alright..
The most scary part of the movie was in a beginning when the main carecter, a little girl, gets lost and steps in to a little boat that goes on by its self. A weard looking woman is pulling the boat to her with a invisible rope. She invites the girl to her and seems very friendly. She gives to the girl chocolate hearts and of course the girl eats them. But the hearts are poisoned and makes her forget her old life. The wich (that the woman is) makes her dance as lovely ballerina. First it is fun but after a while she gets tired of it and don't want to dance anymore but the wich makes her dance and eat more of that chocolate. The girl accedently finds a book in which says 'How to capture litlle girls'. She gets scared and keeps dancing so the wich would stay happy. In the night her bed room fills with little girls with ballerina outfits. They say that they have danced just like that little girl and when they have grown tired of it the wich have got very angry. The wich captures little girls and make them dance and when they don't want to dance anymore, she turns them in the pink roses on the wall paper.. Of course the girl gets out and the wich dies and the other girls are released from thr spell but it was just really scary.. I remember that I have seen that part before and I remember that I was for a long time afraid of eating chocolate..
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Post by Humppaporo on Nov 11, 2006 16:28:35 GMT 2
I have seen Mies vailla mennissyyttä last week. I think it is a good movie, though the characters are not very 'deep'. Bad guys are bad, and good guys are good. The story is okay and funny from time to time, only the ending is a little dissatisfying. It gives a nice picture of, and is almost a parody on the many many rules and restrictions one has to deal with in today's society. The attraction in this movie lies for me partly in the 'emptyness', there is not much spoken, not many people and there is beautiful light.
Another movie I saw some time ago, is Aideistä parhain. This movie is a bout a little boy, who has a very happy life with both parents in Finland. WW2 starts and his father has to leave to fight. Before he leaves he tells his son, that he will be back soon, and everything will be as before. A short time later, an old man comes to tell that his father died. This scene is so strong, it is really great. Nothing is said, hardly anything done, but it makes you feel terrible. Afterwards his mother only wants to lie in bed, she gave up. The government decided that it would be safer for the kids to go to Sweden, because that country had a neutral status. So the little boy goes, totally against his will. He travels and travels and ends up in a very bare landscape in a country where he cannot speak the language of. He goes to a family (man, wife and grandfather), and feels totally unhappy at first. The man is quite okay and understands the little boy, but his wife rejects the boy, therefore he misses his own mother even more. This woman wanted to have a girl instead of a boy. Later it becomes clear why she wanted this and behaved like this. The little boy wants to go home, and makes many attempts. Through time and understanding he gets attached to his foster mother, but the time comes to go back to Finland. For the second time he had to leave a beloved mother. The consequences of this get clear in the scenes where you see mother and son as older people, talking. These scenes are very strong too.
Shortly, quite an emotional film, very well played and it reveals a piece of history I didn’t know about.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2006 17:30:57 GMT 2
Some days ago I noticed that my mom has bought the DVD of "Unna ja Nuuk" (why didn't I know about it...?) and of course I had to watch it ^^ I liked it very much and I was especially amazed by the language. Nice idea to let the actors speak the ancient language But the scene with the mobile phone playing Teräsbetoni - well, I think that was a bit 'too much'...
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Post by hollowheart on Dec 5, 2006 18:54:34 GMT 2
But the scene with the mobile phone playing Teräsbetoni - well, I think that was a bit 'too much'... Why? I liked that! ;D
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Post by CrazyMary on Dec 5, 2006 23:29:06 GMT 2
I rented 'The Man Without a Past' by Aki Kaurismäki from the video shop. It seems this is the second movie in a trilogy, but the video shop only had this one.
I don't know anything about this movie or what to expect, I could get tell it was Finnish so I go it! Hope I find the time to watch it soon.
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Post by wolferin on Dec 14, 2006 5:52:48 GMT 2
I watched "Jadesoturi" ("Jade Warrior"), I can't say much, than Virva said: "Strongly recommended". There is a very beautiful scene, where Sintai (and Kai -Tommi Eronen) and Pin Yu (Jingchu Zhang) fight and dance, the fight is a dance.
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Post by Humppaporo on Dec 15, 2006 10:07:31 GMT 2
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Post by Humppaporo on Dec 28, 2006 10:15:27 GMT 2
Watched Unna ja Nuuk last evening. This is a great movie (I am quite fond of kids movies, so i might be biased). The music and images are amazing. The story is nice but simple. Unna (a gir from about 12 years i guess) has some telepathic skills. In the beginning of the film she feels that her grandfather gets a heart attack. When he is in hospital she visits him and he asks her to bring him something like a berry of the joutsapuu (if i remember correctly). (Don't know if this tree exists, don't think so, but the swan has a mythical role here, also). He also tells Unna that she has healing powers, beause she has shaman blood. Granddad tells Unna to go to a secret place to find the shaman´s book and magic drum. When beaten three times, the drum will move its owner to another time and place, and so begins Unna´s adventure in the Finnish Stone Age. Here the recently immigrated hammer axe people kidnap Unna and Nuuk, the son of the shaman of the original tribe. Unna has met Nuuk in the woods while looking for the cure for her grandfather. Unna and Nuuk escape and travel through the wilderness towards Nuuk´s home camp. During their adventure Unna and Nuuk become friends, but because of the language there are some misunderstandings (still want to know why the name Unna is so funny for Nuuk). Unna finds the cure for her Granddad, survives many adventures and also succeeds in restoring peace between the warring tribes. She returns to the present to bring it to her grandfather. There is a lot of humour in this movie. Of course most of it, I missed (I don’t have subtitles on this movie, don’t know if there are any). But very funny is the excellent (throat)singing ‘bard’ of the hostile tribe. Also funny is the cab-driver who tries to learn Greek from a cassette and speaks out loud even when he has passengers. The language problems also give odd things, so do some modern things that Unna brings to the past (okay the mobile phone was mentioned), but the little teddybear almost causes a huge fight... The beautiful landscape and real nice music, combined with the nice story and the happy ending makes this a very good kids movie. Recommended for all kids like me ;D
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Post by twilightheart on Dec 29, 2006 12:38:15 GMT 2
So, did you watch it in original language? As Jódis said above, this makes the movie interesting as well. Or did you see it with any translation? How did they solve the problem with the "old language" in a translation? I can't imagine. Or did you see the original and the translation was written?
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Post by Humppaporo on Dec 29, 2006 14:32:07 GMT 2
@twi: I watched Unna ja Nuuk in the original language. Unfortunately i don't have subtitles for it, don't know if they exist.
It was a little hard to follow and i must have missed many of the language things. In language i only got a general understanding what conversations were about and here and there a little more.
So, i cannot tell you anything about the translation if there is one.
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Post by hollowheart on Dec 29, 2006 15:45:15 GMT 2
I watched Unna ja Nuuk in the original language. Unfortunately i don't have subtitles for it, don't know if they exist. I saw this movie with English subtitles, and since my Finnish isn't that good yet, it helped a lot. In the meantime, I saw Äideistä parhain. I liked it. Humppaporo has already told what it was about, and I agree, it is a very emotional film, and at times I had to try very hard not to shed a tear... (I mean I saw it with strangers and I didn't want to weep in front of them...)
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Post by gravi on Dec 30, 2006 19:59:06 GMT 2
I can't wait to see Vares2 and the Norther clip is cool!
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Post by pellonpekko on Jan 1, 2007 23:47:12 GMT 2
I wanna find these Finnish movies in Italy, But in Rome I might have very few possibility that I can find it in Videoshops. pellonpekko
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Post by hollowheart on Jan 2, 2007 18:29:03 GMT 2
I wanna find these Finnish movies in Italy, But in Rome I might have very few possibility that I can find it in Videoshops. pellonpekko Have you tried the embassy of Finland? I'm quite sure it is located in Rome. I found the movies I saw at the Finnish embassy here in Hungary.
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