'Alone'
Yksinteoin (Genom en gärning)
D'une pierre deux coups (French title)
Allein (German title)

Finland 1990 colour 82 min Kinofinlandia Oy

**½

Documentary, drama

cast: Jussi Parviainen, Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Vesa Mäkinen
credits: dir. and prod. Pekka Lehto, music Matti and Pirjo Bergström, DOP Kari Sohlberg

There's at least two versions of this film, one has three cast members and another only one. This review is for the last one.

When this movie was made, writer-actor Jussi Parviainen was divorcing from his wife Sanna-Kaisa Palo. Actor Vesa Mäkinen is Sanna-Kaisa's new boyfriend. Mr. Parviainen tells straight to the camera how he feels, what has happened and what he has been thinking about the issue. It's a long monologue in dark. Mr. Parviainen is amazingly good, really credible, it's been told that he improvised all he was doing in the movie. The movie is, however, difficult to watch. It has nothing much else to show to us but Mr. Parviainen and it can be really boring to watch only him a hour and a half.

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