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That's the first Finnish movie I see!

posted 20 years ago by funkybomber
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It's really hard to remember what's the first American, French, British, Greek movie I ever saw. But a finnish film is not something you can find every day... I'm very glad I had the opportunity to see it. It has a feel that can be rarely IF found in todays' movies...

I believe that most of you are finns here...
Any Nightwish fan? They used for their "End Of All Hope" videoclip scenes from a finnish movie called "Kohtalon Kirja", or at least that's what I've read. Have you seen it? It looked really cheap in the videoclip and ruined it for me... But that's another story... Cheers!

[–] Suomi_perkele 16 years ago

While I do consider Mies vailla menneisyyttä as one of the greatest Finnish films, it's obvious that it isn't even Kaurismäki's best. La Vie de bohème is the absolute greatest Kaurismäki film. Shame that Kahdeksan surmanluotia (Eight Deadly Shots) by Mikko Niskanen isn't available anywhere with English subtitles, 'cos that's a movie I'd recommend to pretty much everyone. The single greatest Finnish film.