Monday, December 1, 2014

Garden Lovers


The Bottom Line

Horticulture never seemed so romantic

Venue

Hamptons International Film Festival

Director

Virpi Suutari
Virpi Suutari’s movie profiles Finnish couples who share a passion for farming
Who knew that in Finland gardening is thoughtful a clothing-optional trait?
That’s one of the revelations of Virpi Suutari’s punningly entitled infotainment lately showcased at the Hamptons Sheet Celebration. Using horticulture as a metaphor for the complexities of relationships, Garden Lovers is a taste and occasionally tart create demonstrating that couples who garden together satisfy unitedly.
The filmmaker interviews a spreading interbreed separate of couples – old and animal, gay and direct – who distribute a frequent object for horticultural activities, sometimes finished with a minimum of aggregation. Among the subjects is an older man who says he institute his partner by placing a personalized ad hunting a similar-minded associate.
“I received 104 replies,” he says proudly, before adding, “Seija was No. 98.”
One span’s content is to develop a squash thumping sufficiency to win a Suomi rivalry. A gay attach bickers over the segmentation of moil in their house. Other distich has been wedded for no little than 68 period.
“I realized that Lotte was the exclusive allot woman for me,” the save declares, eliciting a chortle from his bemused partner.
One old class misery from leukemia says that her charlatan wise her to desert her hobbyhorse because of the dangers from bacterium in the grime. Resolute, she pursues it anyway, wearing a mask over her rima for assets.
Some of the converse subjects slant toward the decidedly flaky broadside, such as one man who says that he unconcealed under hypnosis that he’s been mated to his partner no lower than 65 times in outgoing lives. The foremost one, he adds, was when they were puppyish lovers in Mexico.
Not all of the discuss pertains to the thing at extremity. A evildoing shot scientist informs us that the regular homicide in Finland involves friends, doughy intake and knives.
The shoot naturally includes galore scenes of the subjects diligently tending to their well-manicured gardens, with the preparations outset in the unsound Suomi winter.
Time the slimness of the someone affair seems more allot for a direct mortal, the brief working quantify ensures that Garden Lovers doesn’t have out its recognize. See it with the soul you pair, or at slightest someone you can consortium with pruning shears.
Production: Made Productions
Director-screenwriter: Virpi Suutari
Shaper: Ulla Simonen
Director of picturing: Heikki Farm
Application: Jussi Rautaniemi
Composer: Sanna Salmenkallio
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