Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love.
Acting
Nousiainen's smug collapse into vulnerability is painfully believable.
Direction
Louhimies captures Helsinki's bleak intimacy with unflinching honesty.
Writing
Dialogue that feels improvised by people actually hurting.
Director
Aku Louhimies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'New Finnish Cinema' movement that rejected national romanticism for brutal urban realism.
Nousiainen reportedly stayed in character off-set, alienating the crew — method acting or just Finnish masculinity?
FI
