Metsurin tarina (The Woodcutter Story)
2022
*
Director: Mikko Myllylahti
Cast: Jarkko Lahti, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Iivo Tuuri, Marc Gassot, Ulla Tapaninen, Katja Küttner, Armi Toivanen, Matti Onnismaa, Wanda Dubiel
Pepe lives a content life in Finnish Lapland, until one day he loses his job at the sawmill, and soon after, his wife, mother, and best friend. In his feature debut, Mikko Myllylahti takes all the worst aspects of his compatriot Aki Kaurismäki's work and tells an unoriginal story about miserable working class people who play no active role in their own lives. Pepe is another robotic and emotionless character who passively observes as misfortune piles up. The second half takes him on a surreal and episodic journey with his son, but this insufferable and overly stylised film lost me long before that.
