This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I feel like the plot summary makes this movie out to be dumber/more shallow than it is.
I saw Aki as kind of the male equivalent of the manic pixie dreamgirl which is broke, deadbeat bohemian boyfriend. But the way relationships were portrayed felt very real, jokes aside.
Love that the film ends like every French New Wave does - someone murdered, lying in the street.
Weird that this is a comfort movie for me but...maybe not weird...
So crazy that Kati Outinen starred in Shadows in Paradise 4 years before this film and yet she is able to make herself seem 10 years younger, more fragile and naïve as Iris - a huge contrast to Ilona who is more hardened and distrustful. I see myself in both of these characters lol. Love her <3
I like this film a lot more the 3rd or 4th time around. I feel like I found a lot more things to laugh at, which I needed.
