This is maybe the best movie I've seen so far this year... It's a full-scale performance and a terrific movie.
Read full articleThere’s certainly enough charm to spare from the film’s leads, but the storytelling too often relies on disabled people in peril and other tropes that simply regurgitate what we’ve seen.
Read full articleThe plot eventually thins out into dissatisfying contrivances. Jaakko deserves better — and the charming, arresting Poikolainen does, too.
Read full articlePoikolainen’s performance through clenched teeth moved me in ways that only a handful of films did in recent years.
Read full articleThe Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic is certainly off the beaten path, but well worth the journey.
Read full articleThe film's unique visual style compliments Petri Poikolainen's terrific performance in Teemu Nikki's funny, tense and very moving film about the universal pleasures that connect us.
Read full articleThere are few moments when the camera isn’t affixed to Poikolainen’s expressive countenance. The rest of the physical world fades out of focus, yielding a magnetic form of experiential cinema that becomes downright heart-pounding.
Read full articleThat title isn’t the only arrestingly offbeat thing about this Finnish feature.
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