Stripping
Hengittämättä & nauramatta

Finland 2002 colour 74min Blind Spot Productions Oy

***

Drama, comedy

cast: Liisa Kuoppamäki (Inka), Meri Nenonen, Marc Gassot (Arno), Johan Storgård (Luukas), Mikko Nousiainen (Joonas), Laura Birn, Elina Knihtilä
credits: dir. Saara Saarela (also script with Veera Kiiskinen), music Jarmo Saari, prod. Saara Saarela, Tero Kaukomaa and Petri Jokiranta, DOP Peter Flinckenberg

It's a bit like Ally McBeal. A story about a woman called Inka who draws a cartoon serie and seems to live her life like a cartoon heroine. She wants always be in the middle of the action and arrange everybody's business. Oh boy, she's a wacko.

In the beginning she leaves her lover (Nousiainen), who is as surprised about this as the audience. There's no good reason for her to move but she does it anyway. Her cartoon seems to be never published. Everything goes wrong. Even her new lover is a big mistake. But better times will come.

Liisa Kuoppamäki was a good choise in the head role of this movie but sometimes she's showing out either too little or wrong feelings. Maybe the fault was not her but the director's. However, there's some hilarius supporting roles. For example Inka's brother, a computer witzard who doesn't usually come out from his "cave", is fantastic. The movie is visually fine and its soundtrack sounds nice but the story should have been better written.

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