17 year old friends Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen) are pretty typical teenage girls, dealing with the boredom of Finland’s long winters nights and with the normal travails of relationships. Across three Fridays and a Saturday, Mimmi develops a relationship with championship skater Emma and Rönkkö tries to find someone who can help her enjoy sex.
I watch a lot of coming of age movies, and I would bet that director Alli Haapasalo and writers Ilona Ahti and Daniela Hakulinen do as well, because Girls Girls Girls (which has also been released under the English title Girl Picture) is very reminiscent of a lot of genre pieces that have gone before it. In particular the influences of Sciamma and Moodysson loom large. These are good places to be pulling from, and the film spins variations on familiar moments well enough that it doesn’t become entirely a patchwork...
I watch a lot of coming of age movies, and I would bet that director Alli Haapasalo and writers Ilona Ahti and Daniela Hakulinen do as well, because Girls Girls Girls (which has also been released under the English title Girl Picture) is very reminiscent of a lot of genre pieces that have gone before it. In particular the influences of Sciamma and Moodysson loom large. These are good places to be pulling from, and the film spins variations on familiar moments well enough that it doesn’t become entirely a patchwork...
- 9/26/2022
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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