Theo's House, a film by Finnish director Rax Rinnekangas, captures the moral reckoning of Theo (Hannu-Pekka Björkman), a beefy middle-aged architect who, along with his partner, once filled Finnish cities with the profitable but aesthetically uniform high-rises that he now refers to as "stillborns."
Like Theo, Rinnekangas is concerned with the morality of physical artifacts; monochrome shots of Theo's anodyne façades are a shorthand for his distaste for functional art, and stand in sharp contrast to lush shots of the sprawling Brandenburg estate where Theo retreats after his wife leaves him. Maintaining the grounds are a pair of hired hands who have retired early from the mad dash of modern life, and who indulge Theo's desire to stay on as the sole tenant in th...
Like Theo, Rinnekangas is concerned with the morality of physical artifacts; monochrome shots of Theo's anodyne façades are a shorthand for his distaste for functional art, and stand in sharp contrast to lush shots of the sprawling Brandenburg estate where Theo retreats after his wife leaves him. Maintaining the grounds are a pair of hired hands who have retired early from the mad dash of modern life, and who indulge Theo's desire to stay on as the sole tenant in th...
- 12/10/2014
- Village Voice
Producer Riina Hyytiä named producer of the year at Finnish Film Week.
At the closing gala of the Finnish Film Week (Sept 20-26), producer Riina Hyytiä was named Producer of the Year for Johanna Vuoksenmaa’s divorce comedy 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage (21 tapaa pilata avioliitto).
The comedy is the first Finnish feature by a female director to exceed 400,000 admissions, which only four films have achieved in the last 25 years.
Organised for the fourth time as part of the Helsinki International Film Festival-Love & Anarchy included 24 domestic productions introduced by the filmmakers.
It included previews of Ulrika Bengts’ Lärjungen (The Disciple - Finland’s submission for the Oscars), Rax Rinnekangas’ Luciferin viimeinen elämä (The Last Life of Lucifer), Pekka Lehto’s Luciferin viimeinen elämä (The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand), Dome Karukoski’s Leijonasydän (Heart of a Lion) and Pirjo Honkasalo’s Betoniyö (Concrete Night).
More awards for industry professionals went to:
Director of the Year Simo Halinen for Kerron...
At the closing gala of the Finnish Film Week (Sept 20-26), producer Riina Hyytiä was named Producer of the Year for Johanna Vuoksenmaa’s divorce comedy 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage (21 tapaa pilata avioliitto).
The comedy is the first Finnish feature by a female director to exceed 400,000 admissions, which only four films have achieved in the last 25 years.
Organised for the fourth time as part of the Helsinki International Film Festival-Love & Anarchy included 24 domestic productions introduced by the filmmakers.
It included previews of Ulrika Bengts’ Lärjungen (The Disciple - Finland’s submission for the Oscars), Rax Rinnekangas’ Luciferin viimeinen elämä (The Last Life of Lucifer), Pekka Lehto’s Luciferin viimeinen elämä (The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand), Dome Karukoski’s Leijonasydän (Heart of a Lion) and Pirjo Honkasalo’s Betoniyö (Concrete Night).
More awards for industry professionals went to:
Director of the Year Simo Halinen for Kerron...
- 9/27/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
The second edition of the Finnish Film Affair, scheduled for Sept 24-26 in Helsinki, will again showcase hot local titles and works in progress.
This year’s event boasts an expanded guest list of sales agents, buyers and festival programmers, including representatives from Zdf/Arte, Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Hanway, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Rotterdam and Locarno. About 200 industry experts will attend.
“The first edition introduced the Finnish Film Affair to international decision makers,” said Sara Norberg, executive director of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, which launched the event. “We’re very proud that the success of last year’s works-in-progress and the positive buzz around the event has attracted even more interest from the international industry.”
The new films to be screened include Toronto-bound titles Concrete Night by Pirjo Honkasalo and Heart of Lion by Dome Karukoski, in addition to other festival selections such as Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart by Mika Ronkainen and Alcan Highway by Aleksi...
This year’s event boasts an expanded guest list of sales agents, buyers and festival programmers, including representatives from Zdf/Arte, Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Hanway, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Rotterdam and Locarno. About 200 industry experts will attend.
“The first edition introduced the Finnish Film Affair to international decision makers,” said Sara Norberg, executive director of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, which launched the event. “We’re very proud that the success of last year’s works-in-progress and the positive buzz around the event has attracted even more interest from the international industry.”
The new films to be screened include Toronto-bound titles Concrete Night by Pirjo Honkasalo and Heart of Lion by Dome Karukoski, in addition to other festival selections such as Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart by Mika Ronkainen and Alcan Highway by Aleksi...
- 8/21/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The 24th Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy is off and running through September 25 and for just as long, wherever you are in the world, you can watch four films for free: Tonislav Hristov's Rules of Single Life, a comedy about Bulgarian men in the Finnish capital; Rax Rinnekangas's Journey to Eden, in which two artists explore northern Spain; Markku Tuurna's Salla? Selling the Silence, documenting the rise and fall of a family of entrepreneurs from Lapland; and Jouko Aaltonen's Battle for the City, chronicling the struggle to save the architecture of Turku, Finland's oldest city....
- 9/15/2011
- MUBI
Finland's Rax Rinnekangas, one of Europe's leading documentary filmmakers, describes himself as a simple, non Jewish artist born in Lapland. However, he refuses to stop "our remembrances" which would mean collective ignorance for all of us.
In the words of the filmmaker, "First, I am taken the film was not a disappointment to you though it is not done with Hollywood money but just with artistic passion and seriousness to the theme. Secondly, because this world here in my tiny country is so cynic to this thematic people think reading about Hitler they know the whole story, and they take me as an idiot and old fashioned to make this kind of film. My point of view is simple: to survive on this planet we must again and again study our past to keep our memory fresh."
The film is being shown specifically on January 27, 2010 to capture the power of...
In the words of the filmmaker, "First, I am taken the film was not a disappointment to you though it is not done with Hollywood money but just with artistic passion and seriousness to the theme. Secondly, because this world here in my tiny country is so cynic to this thematic people think reading about Hitler they know the whole story, and they take me as an idiot and old fashioned to make this kind of film. My point of view is simple: to survive on this planet we must again and again study our past to keep our memory fresh."
The film is being shown specifically on January 27, 2010 to capture the power of...
- 1/26/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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