Hollywood Film Festival
Solar Films
Slacker life in Finland is depicted in that country's "Me and Morrison", an ultimately disappointing rendering of aimless young adults. Director Lenka Hellstedt's drama opens on the incredibly self-centered Milla (Irina Bjorklund, a Swedish-born up-and-comer), who is drifting through life and jobs and sponging off friends. When she meets Aki (Samuli Edelmann), a Jim Morrison fan, in a bar, their one-night stand evolves into boozy romance, a lot of pot smoking and, soon, cohabitation.
Aki is a single parent. His young son, Joonas (Roope Karisto), has long ago learned to ignore the endless drugs and sex that float through their small house. This odd threesome becomes an ersatz family -- that is, if Aki's increasing drug use doesn't destroy all their lives.
Actors are fine, camerawork is largely hand-held, and editing is eye-catching -- too much so, in fact. If only the screenplay by Marko Leino, based on Kata Kakkainen's novel, had traded some of its zest for youthful narcissism for a bit more character motivation.
Solar Films
Slacker life in Finland is depicted in that country's "Me and Morrison", an ultimately disappointing rendering of aimless young adults. Director Lenka Hellstedt's drama opens on the incredibly self-centered Milla (Irina Bjorklund, a Swedish-born up-and-comer), who is drifting through life and jobs and sponging off friends. When she meets Aki (Samuli Edelmann), a Jim Morrison fan, in a bar, their one-night stand evolves into boozy romance, a lot of pot smoking and, soon, cohabitation.
Aki is a single parent. His young son, Joonas (Roope Karisto), has long ago learned to ignore the endless drugs and sex that float through their small house. This odd threesome becomes an ersatz family -- that is, if Aki's increasing drug use doesn't destroy all their lives.
Actors are fine, camerawork is largely hand-held, and editing is eye-catching -- too much so, in fact. If only the screenplay by Marko Leino, based on Kata Kakkainen's novel, had traded some of its zest for youthful narcissism for a bit more character motivation.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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