A trio of teens navigates relationships in contemporary Helsinki in Girl Picture, Finland’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar. Directed by Alli Haapasalo (Love and Fury), it’s an engaging portrait of young women that’s as refreshing as it is entertaining. To call this a “Finnish Booksmart” would be doing its originality a disservice, but there are coincidental similarities as a quick-witted lesbian and her straight girl friend try to help each other with their love lives over a series of parties and amusing encounters.
Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) is sparky, rebellious and fun, lending her extroversion to Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), who’s insecure about her sex life. But instead of the usual boy problems, her worry is that she may not actually enjoy sex at all. It strikes you how rarely the issue of asexuality is tackled on screen, as Rönkkö wonders if she’s doing something wrong,...
Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) is sparky, rebellious and fun, lending her extroversion to Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), who’s insecure about her sex life. But instead of the usual boy problems, her worry is that she may not actually enjoy sex at all. It strikes you how rarely the issue of asexuality is tackled on screen, as Rönkkö wonders if she’s doing something wrong,...
- 12/15/2022
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Cropped out of “Girl Picture” are the angsty awkwardness and crippling self-doubt that usually plague cinema’s teens as the training wheels of adolescence are removed. In a way, that makes director Alli Haapasalo’s up-tempo light drama a refreshing spin on a familiar genre, as it presents an attractively bouncy, perhaps even aspirational portrait of not-terribly-painful Gen-z growing pains. But as much as the trio make for pleasant company as they navigate a benevolent passage into adulthood, Ilona Ahti and Daniela Hakulinen’s screenplay never really grips; it’s hard to generate much real tension with characters one never truly worries about, who are going to be able to solve most of their problems with a quick heart-to-heart or an oversized-knitwear hug.
A likable portrait of three young Finns chasing down their sexual and romantic awakenings with an emotional frankness that would be enviable in women twice their age,...
A likable portrait of three young Finns chasing down their sexual and romantic awakenings with an emotional frankness that would be enviable in women twice their age,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Girl Picture Strand Releasing Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Alli Haapasalo Writer: Ilona Ahti & Daniela Hakulinen Cast: Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino Screened at: Critics’ link, LA, 11/5/22 Opens: April 14th, 2022 (Finland) Society isn’t typically kind to those who are different, but there are also those who single themselves out […]
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- 12/1/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
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
Everything that matters happens on a Friday night. Not a bright and early Monday morning; not a lazy Sunday afternoon. It’s all about Friday, or so says “Girl Picture,’ at least, in its teenage coming-of-age triptych.
Set across three Fridays featuring the same three adolescent girls, “Girl Picture” is a thoughtful, funny, and empathetic look at lives in flux.
At the center of the film are free-spirited Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and loyal Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), best friends who also work together after school at their mall’s smoothie stand. There, they dish and waste time. They’re teenagers, the brink of their life approaching with great swiftness. None of these girls is all too focused on her studies but rather on the romance and tumult and sex that comes with adolescence.
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At the smoothie stand,...
Set across three Fridays featuring the same three adolescent girls, “Girl Picture” is a thoughtful, funny, and empathetic look at lives in flux.
At the center of the film are free-spirited Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and loyal Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), best friends who also work together after school at their mall’s smoothie stand. There, they dish and waste time. They’re teenagers, the brink of their life approaching with great swiftness. None of these girls is all too focused on her studies but rather on the romance and tumult and sex that comes with adolescence.
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At the smoothie stand,...
- 8/11/2022
- by Fran Hoepfner
- The Wrap
Girl Picture Trailer — Alli Haapasalo‘s Girl Picture / Tytot Tytot Tytot (2022) movie trailer has been released by Strand Releasing. The Girl Picture trailer stars Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, and Linnea Leino. Crew The screenplay is written by Ilona Ahti and Daniela Hakulinen. Poster Girl Picture Movie Poster Plot Synopsis Girl Picture‘s plot synopsis: “Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö [...]
Continue reading: Girl Picture (2022) Movie Trailer: Aamu Milonoff & Linnea Leino star in Alli Haapasalo’s Young Love Film...
Continue reading: Girl Picture (2022) Movie Trailer: Aamu Milonoff & Linnea Leino star in Alli Haapasalo’s Young Love Film...
- 6/22/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"I want to be so close to someone that it's not enough that your skin touches." Strand has revealed a new official US trailer for the indie film Girl Picture, a Finnish coming-of-age dramedy from filmmaker Alli Haapasalo. This first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at Berlinale. The Finnish title is Tytöt Tytöt Tytöt which translates directly to Girls Girl Girls. Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö work after school at a food court smoothie kiosk, swapping stories of their frustrations and expectations regarding love and sex. "Writers Daniela Hakulinen & Ilona Ahti consistently present the film's teen protagonists as complex individuals, while director Alli Haapasalo, rather than aestheticizing the girls' femininity, vibrantly depicts their trials and tribulations through their own eyes." This stars Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, and Linnea Leino. I wrote about this one last year as one of the great Finnish films at Sundance,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Award winner will open BFI Flare on March 16.
After launching at Sundance and Berlinale, Finnish feminist coming-of-age story Girl Picture has been a hot seller for LevelK.
The film has now closed deals to the US (Strand Releasing); Canada (Photon Films); UK & Ireland (Vertigo Releasing); Japan (Medallion Media); Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Rtl in collaboration with Salzgeber & Co); Italy (I Wonder Pictures); Spain & Portugal (FilmIn); Benelux (Cinemien); Poland (Aurora Films); Israel (TLVFest); Eastern Europe (HBO Europe); and Korea (Watcha). Other theatrical deals are in the works.
The coming-of-age drama is about Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö, teenage girls who are navigating...
After launching at Sundance and Berlinale, Finnish feminist coming-of-age story Girl Picture has been a hot seller for LevelK.
The film has now closed deals to the US (Strand Releasing); Canada (Photon Films); UK & Ireland (Vertigo Releasing); Japan (Medallion Media); Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Rtl in collaboration with Salzgeber & Co); Italy (I Wonder Pictures); Spain & Portugal (FilmIn); Benelux (Cinemien); Poland (Aurora Films); Israel (TLVFest); Eastern Europe (HBO Europe); and Korea (Watcha). Other theatrical deals are in the works.
The coming-of-age drama is about Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö, teenage girls who are navigating...
- 3/12/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture and Kevin Hegge’s Tramps! to bookend BFI Flare festival.
The 36th BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival (March 16-27) is to open with the UK premiere of Alli Haapasalo’s coming-of-age drama Girl Picture and to close with the world premiere of Kevin Hegge’s feature doc Tramps!.
Finnish director Haapasalo’s Girl Picture won the World Cinema Dramatic audience award at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will screen in the Berlinale next week.
The story of three girls at the cusp of womanhood, it follows them over three consecutive Fridays as...
The 36th BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival (March 16-27) is to open with the UK premiere of Alli Haapasalo’s coming-of-age drama Girl Picture and to close with the world premiere of Kevin Hegge’s feature doc Tramps!.
Finnish director Haapasalo’s Girl Picture won the World Cinema Dramatic audience award at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will screen in the Berlinale next week.
The story of three girls at the cusp of womanhood, it follows them over three consecutive Fridays as...
- 2/11/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The title of “Girl Picture,” the Finnish director Alli Haapasalo’s winsome coming-of-age film, is straightforward in a deliberate kind of way. It seems to say: . The movie, which premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, sticks to this promise as it unravels a conventional yet enormously likable story of three teenagers in Finland working out their feelings about love and sex.
We meet Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff), a sneering hothead, as she’s picking a fight with a fellow student in gym class. Her surliness is so off-putting that she might be a loner if it weren’t for her longtime best friend, Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), whose quirky intellect balances out Mimmi’s quick wit and bad temper. Whether at school or at the smoothie shop in the mall where they work, the pair are nearly inseparable. But while Mimmi could stand to cool off, Rönkko...
We meet Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff), a sneering hothead, as she’s picking a fight with a fellow student in gym class. Her surliness is so off-putting that she might be a loner if it weren’t for her longtime best friend, Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), whose quirky intellect balances out Mimmi’s quick wit and bad temper. Whether at school or at the smoothie shop in the mall where they work, the pair are nearly inseparable. But while Mimmi could stand to cool off, Rönkko...
- 1/28/2022
- by Natalia Winkelman
- Indiewire
Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff), Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), and Emma (Linnea Leino) are three ordinary girls trying to navigate the turbulence of teenage life. Mimmi is headstrong and rebellious, introduced in Finnish director Alli Haapasalo’s sophomore feature, Girl Picture, brawling with another girl in the gym over unwillingness to care about the frivolous sport at hand. Rönkkö is Mimmi’s good-natured, curly-haired best friend; she struggles with intimacy issues, at ease with male attraction and sexual desire but unable to find pleasure in the act of sex itself. Meanwhile, competitive figure skater Emma forgoes adolescent delights for the sport she holds dear—until a reluctant party appearance puts Emma within Mimmi’s chaotic orbit. This throws the two girls into a whirlwind romance chronicled over the course of three Fridays and, alongside Rönkkö, all are pulled in different directions of passion, sexuality, and self-discovery.
Rönkkö has made it her mission to finally have pleasurable sex,...
Rönkkö has made it her mission to finally have pleasurable sex,...
- 1/25/2022
- by Brianna Zigler
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Danish sales company LevelK has picked up rights to the Finnish coming-of-age drama Girl Picture ahead of its screenings at Sundance and Berlin.
The film is selected for Berlin’s Generation program and will also take part in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, becoming the first Finnish feature to be programmed in the latter.
Alli Haapasalo (Love and Fury) directs the pic, which stars Aamu Milonoff (Eden), Eleonoora Kauhanen and Linnea Leino in the main roles. The story follows three girls on the cusp of womanhood. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
Daniela Hakulinen and Ilona Ahti wrote the screenplay. Producers are Leila Lyytikäinen (Life after Death) and Elina Pohjola for Citizen Jane Productions. The project is supported by the Finnish Film foundation,...
The film is selected for Berlin’s Generation program and will also take part in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, becoming the first Finnish feature to be programmed in the latter.
Alli Haapasalo (Love and Fury) directs the pic, which stars Aamu Milonoff (Eden), Eleonoora Kauhanen and Linnea Leino in the main roles. The story follows three girls on the cusp of womanhood. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
Daniela Hakulinen and Ilona Ahti wrote the screenplay. Producers are Leila Lyytikäinen (Life after Death) and Elina Pohjola for Citizen Jane Productions. The project is supported by the Finnish Film foundation,...
- 1/10/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Though this year’s Sundance Film Festival is going virtual-only for the second time in a row, that doesn’t mean there still isn’t plenty to be excited about. While buzzy, star-driven titles like Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick” and Phyllis Nagy’s “Call Jane” put women’s issues front and center, there are more than a few under-the-radar titles that also consider love and sexuality from a female viewpoint. Case in point: “Girl Picture,” the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic competition entry from Finnish director Alli Haapasalo.
The film, centered on the experiences of three young women coming of age and into love and sex, premieres January 24 as part of the Sundance lineup. Exclusive to IndieWire, watch the electric first trailer below.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö have each other’s backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion.
The film, centered on the experiences of three young women coming of age and into love and sex, premieres January 24 as part of the Sundance lineup. Exclusive to IndieWire, watch the electric first trailer below.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö have each other’s backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion.
- 1/6/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Produced by Hummelfilm, ‘Borg vs McEnroe’ star Sverrir Gudnason is amongst the cast.
Haugesund’s industry programme New Nordic Films will kick off with a screening of Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s Norwegian family drama Phoenix (Foniks), which was pitched as a work in progress at the event last year.
Gudny Hummelvoll produces for Hummelfilm, with a cast that features Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin, Casper Falck-Løvås, Maria Bonnevie and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs McEnroe).
New Nordic Films has also today confirmed the projects for Scandinavian Debut Pitch:
A Foot In The Grave (En amputasjon), dir Simon Tillaas (Nor) Daddy’s Girl, dir...
Haugesund’s industry programme New Nordic Films will kick off with a screening of Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s Norwegian family drama Phoenix (Foniks), which was pitched as a work in progress at the event last year.
Gudny Hummelvoll produces for Hummelfilm, with a cast that features Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin, Casper Falck-Løvås, Maria Bonnevie and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs McEnroe).
New Nordic Films has also today confirmed the projects for Scandinavian Debut Pitch:
A Foot In The Grave (En amputasjon), dir Simon Tillaas (Nor) Daddy’s Girl, dir...
- 7/27/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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