Tyttö nimeltä Varpu (2016)

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu (Linnea Skog), who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother (Paula Vesala), who doesn't want to grow up.

Director:

Selma Vilhunen

Writers:

Selma Vilhunen, Selma Vilhunen

Stars:

Linnea Skog, Paula Vesala, Lauri Maijala

3 wins & 12 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Linnea Skog	...	Varpu Miettinen
Paula Vesala	...	Siru Miettinen
Lauri Maijala	...	Varpun isä
Santtu Karvonen	...	Bo
Antti Luusuaniemi	...	Ilmari 'Väärä isä' Hukkanen
Niina Sillanpää	...	Emilia Hukkanen
Outi Mäenpää	...	Ratsastuksenopettaja
Anna Kare	...	Saara
Aamu Milonoff	...	Olivia
Minerva Nylander	...	Jasmine
Ronja Kalenius	...	Sonja
Taisto Oksanen	...	Jari Peltonen
Jukka Peltola	...	Benkku
Iiris Huttunen	...	Ponityttö 1
Ella Niinistö	...	Ponityttö 2

Storyline

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu (Linnea Skog), who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother (Paula Vesala), who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and Siru's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.

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Plot Keywords:

single parent | 12 years old | lost father | father | motherhood | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Finland Denmark

Language:

Finnish

Release Date:

23 September 2016 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Little Wing

Box Office

Budget:

€930,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Final Cut for Real,Making Movies Oy

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The leading cast of this film was not very experienced in acting since this is the film debut for Linnea Skog, Paula Vesala is better known as musician and Lauri Maijala is primarily a theatre director.

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Soundtracks

Ala droppaa mun tunnelmaa (Don't Like My Mood Drops)
music by Paula Vesala, Matti Mikkola & Joonas Angeria
lyric by by Paula Vesala
performed by by Paula Vesala (as Vesala)
courtesy of Maailmanloppu Oy, HMC Publishing

User Reviews

Boring movie

(I'm sorry for my bad English) I can describe this movie in one sentence: This a movie which doesn't take any risks. It was really boring cinematicly and story... well, nothing special. This movie is not original in any way. It's a movie for womens.

Is that drama that we see the mother crying over her child and then we see that the child is doing alright. Is that dramatic in any way? I didn't cry nor laugh. It was just weird.'And when the mother cries to her child, it's has shown as a comic relief like what is this?? Why director wants to make sad things funny but when he want's to make people cry, there is nothing for cry about because the child is doing fine.

There is one thing that I like this movie and that is that the schizophrenia was showed really mature way.

It was not a bad movie but me, person who watches over 200 movies in a year, it was not speciall in any way.