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River (The)

Country: Finland, Language: Finnish, 104 mins

Original Title

Joki
  • Director: Jarmo Lampela
  • Writer: Jarmo Lampela
  • Producer: Riikka Poulsen; Eila Werning

CGiii Comment

Interweaving stories - cleverly done.

Some stories are more interesting than others in this humdrum look at life.

Some scenes are completely unnecessary...the toilet scene (weird), the singer in the pub (painful), everything about the waitress...annoying. The gay interest is very short and goes nowhere - definitely an oversight by the director.

Cutting and expanding some of the storylines would have made this more engaging...but, there is obvious talent at work...it just needs refinement.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.

Cast & Characters

Sanna Hietala as Anni;
Antti Ikkala as Kimmo;
Jyri Ojansivu as Janne;
Antti Mikkola as Santeri;
Heidi Liimatainen as Johanna;
Pekka Hannonen as Mikko;
Paula Forsgren as Santeri's mother;
Jari Virman as Eero;
Katja Kinnari as Kaisa;
Juha Kukkonen as Esa;
Heikki Pirhonen as Pete;
Markus Ranta as Mikko;
Kaisa Niemela as Krisse;
Kirsi Laamanen as Jenni;
Juha Varis as Hannu