"The Geography of Fear"
Pelon maantiede

Available on DVD

Finland 2000 colour 94 min Blind Spot Pictures Oy

**½

Crime

cast: Tanjalotta Räikkä (Oili Lyyra), Leea Klemola (Maaru Tang), Kari Sorvali (Eero Harakka), Kaarina Hazard (Kristiina), Eija Vilpas (Saara), Pertti Sveholm (Rainer Auvinen), Elsa Saisio (Riikka), Anna-Elina Lyytikäinen (Laura), Sulevi Peltola, Heikki Nousiainen, Esko Roine
credits: dir. Auli Mantila (also script, based on a book by Anja Kauranen), DOP Heikki Färm

A group of women kills a man. They want to teach to all men, who act like pigs, that women are no toys. Director Mantila said somewhere that this movie is not feministic. Most of the time it is. Among these kind of issues this also a story about two sisters, the one hates the other. The other loves her sister anyway.

The leading lady can't give an impressing performance in this movie. She's like outsider all of time. Leea Klemola and Kaarina Hazard are better in their roles, just like they would have born to be angry and feministic bitches. However, that's not enough to save the film.

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