Peruna (The Potato Venture)
2021
**
Director: Joona Tena
Cast: Joonas Nordman, Mikko Penttilä, Alex Anton, Kari Hietalahti, Linnea Leino, Kari Ketonen, Petteri Pennilä, Mimosa Willamo, Linda Manelius, Lasse Karkjärvi, Antti Tuomas Heikkinen
Untamo is a resourceful young man who wants to start growing and selling potatoes, but nobody believes that his weird root vegetable could replace turnip in 17th century Finland. This Finnish comedy set in the world of start-ups has a clever and inventive pitch, but I didn't find the end product funny at all. It basically has one joke, characters doing and saying anachronistic things, which is repeated over and over for 100 minutes. That could work for a 15-minute skit but not for a feature length film.
