Whoever wrote the storyline is confusing this film with some other. As the Cast listing and the "findie" classification says, this is a Finnish film, in the "indie" class.
Anyway, the first time I saw it, I was completely confused, but after viewing it a few more times I began kinda like it, although it has the feel of being patched together from mismatching pieces. There area brilliant moments and then stuff that still confuses me. The actors though are wonderful.
Basically, the characters are a bunch of academic students from wildly different fields and with wildly different motives, coming together in a need for a place to work in, believing they have something in common. They keep bumping into the limits of their understanding of the environment they ended up in, in Finnish Lapland. Some struggle to find inner peace, some expose their limited understanding of Sami, the indigenous people of Northern Fennoscandia. Plus many other varying themes that collide. Eventually, they each run into a blind alley with their work and invite a professor to check out what they had done so far. The sequence around the professor's visit is visually brilliant, and a great homage to Kaisa Korhonen, a well know actress and also a professor in Theater School. But like everything else, things do not quite seem to come together. Yet I enjoy the film even more very time I see it. Can't explain why.
I'm not sure if it necessary to say that the directory is Sami herself.
Anyway, the first time I saw it, I was completely confused, but after viewing it a few more times I began kinda like it, although it has the feel of being patched together from mismatching pieces. There area brilliant moments and then stuff that still confuses me. The actors though are wonderful.
Basically, the characters are a bunch of academic students from wildly different fields and with wildly different motives, coming together in a need for a place to work in, believing they have something in common. They keep bumping into the limits of their understanding of the environment they ended up in, in Finnish Lapland. Some struggle to find inner peace, some expose their limited understanding of Sami, the indigenous people of Northern Fennoscandia. Plus many other varying themes that collide. Eventually, they each run into a blind alley with their work and invite a professor to check out what they had done so far. The sequence around the professor's visit is visually brilliant, and a great homage to Kaisa Korhonen, a well know actress and also a professor in Theater School. But like everything else, things do not quite seem to come together. Yet I enjoy the film even more very time I see it. Can't explain why.
I'm not sure if it necessary to say that the directory is Sami herself.
