16-year-old Eveliina accidentally sees her mother kissing another woman. Fearing her parents' divorce, she decides to intervene, by any means and without permission. In her opinion, the best way to destroy her mother's extramarital affair and bring her parents back together is a teenage daughter in trouble. Thus, Eveliina gets herself in trouble as many ways as she can. Along the way, the lives of a few others are at stake. Still, Eveliina guards her plan to the last, and the adults have their own secret ways of survival - until the bubble bursts.
Acting
Stella Leppikorpi commits to every terrible decision flawlessly.
Direction
Salmenperä balances excruciating awkwardness with genuine warmth.
Writing
Every adult is as messy as the teens—no easy villains here.
Director
Aleksi Salmenperä
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finnish cinema has a proud tradition of 'kaurismäki-esque' deadpan dysfunction; Bubble updates this for the TikTok generation without losing the national specialty: staring into the abyss and shrugging.
Director Aleksi Salmenperä cast his own daughter's age-peer Stella Leppikorpi after an exhaustive search; her authentic teenage volatility was apparently impossible to fake.
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