646f9e108c On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions. It is a Finnish film, but I watched it with my foreign friends. It was funny as a Finnish guy, I sometimes see the small problems of Finnish cinema. The problem being dialogue.<br/><br/>But for my foreign friends this was no problem at all. They have no idea how Finnish people act or speak live. They also loved the exotic landscape, which for me of course had become too familiar.<br/><br/>This made think, is this the same for every other nation? Do they see their films in a similar manner, and I looked into it. Apparently in the US most films before the late 60s have a style of acting coming from the theater. After the independent films came Hollywood took a more down to earth style of acting like from real life. Now it is the norm.<br/><br/>In Finnish cinema you can still the heavy impact of the fact that most actors come from theater. Perhaps people are almost expecting it.<br/><br/>However putting that aside it still a good detective thriller in Finland. I would recommend it especially to foreigners, as it was quite a hit in Finland itself. Also what I found funny in this film did not go down too well with especially the Indians (we watched this film as we have a club with my work buddies, where we watch films from our native countries). The two guys from India found the film almost too dark, I don't wonder why as we had to watch a bollywood film two times ago when we met. It was horrible…<br/><br/>Funny how these cultural features come into play with films. I would hope that the cinema-complexes would show more foreign films. Perhaps they don't sell too good, but perhaps the consumer needs to become more aware. For example after this film some of the guys told me that my dark jokes were similar to what's in this film. Next time I'm going to show them some Kaurismaki… I mean this film is a little more commercial than Kaurismaki (he's style is unique, and the theater thing is not valid).<br/><br/>Overall good film, and we should thank Markus Selin for his constant good work in producing these! "Vares" was shown during Germany's "Fantasy Filmfest" - an international film festival of fantasy, horror and film noir - and I got to watch it. I'd been looking forward to seeing a Finnish movie with English subtitles rather than the other way round (yes, I'm easy to please sometimes) but in addition to being Finnish, the movie is also QUITE good! I didn't find anything to complain about, be it the acting, soundtrack or conversations. I had a good laugh, so did my friends, and the audience applauded in the end.<br/><br/>The movie is exciting/tense, funny, well-paced, has some heavy action without being too violent, and you just have to love the characters.<br/><br/>I don't know whether this was a one timer, since there are more Vares books, I hope they produce a sequel some time in the future.
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