Espoo Cine this weekend!
Don’t forget, starting yesterday and ending Sunday is the annual Espoo Film Festival. Lots of great movies, cheap tickets (6e), most movies have English subtitles, even the Finnish ones. Highlights include: “Thank you for smoking“, “Puzzlehead“, and Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth“. And tonight at 22:00 is a free outdoor viewing of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Calamari Union” with English subtitles – I hope to be there.
Anyone going to the festival? Any other movies we should look out for? This one sounds interesting, “Aika tappaa“, finally a Finnish film that doesn’t take money from the state, I hope it’s a huge hit…
Finland does not produce many independent films. With very few exceptions, all Finnish films distributed commercially are productions supported by the Finnish Film Foundation. The only really independent film of the recent years has been the space parody Star Wreck, created by a group of hobbyists. Now it has received a worthy companion in the form of Aika tappaa, a feature-length film produced, written and directed by the first-time director Timo Puustinen with no state funding whatsoever.
