Girl Picture

Watch: Girl Picture

5/1/20221h 40m

Premiere Release (US)

~ It takes a good fall to know where you stand. ~

Overview:

Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down.

Director:

Alli Haapasalo

Status:

Released

Language:

Finnish

Buget:

$1,800,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

sexuality
lesbian relationship
teenage love
lgbt
lgbt teen
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ice skater
girl friends hanging out

Cast

Aamu Milonoff

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Mimmi

Eleonoora Kauhanen

~ as ~

Rönkkö

Linnea Leino

~ as ~

Emma

Sonya Lindfors

~ as ~

Tarja

Cécile Orblin

~ as ~

Karoliina

Oona Airola

~ as ~

Sanna

Mikko Kauppila

~ as ~

Jarmo

Amos Brotherus

~ as ~

Sipi

Bruno Baer

~ as ~

Kalle

Nicky Laaguid

~ as ~

Henkka

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 10 month(s) ago
6
Told over a trio of Friday evenings, this follows the story of three lifelong pals who are entering the exciting new world of adulthood and discovering things about their bodies and themselves that director Alli Haapasalo has knitted into one hundred minutes of light-hearted drama. "Mimmi" (Aamu Milonoff) and the figure skating-obsessed "Emma" (Linnea Leino) have always been joined at the hip and appear destined to take their relationship to the next level, whilst "Rönkkö" (Eleoonora Kauhanen) is more into finding out just to get her juices (quite literally) flowing. What now ensues sees these three girls go through some of the turbulence of adolescence, exploring their sexuality and questioning their priorities as they go - whilst causing some mayhem with the equally hormonal boys whom "Rönkkö", especially, seems to manage to frustrate at every turn as she rather methodically searches for her own "tingle". It's quite a quirkily coming of age sort of story, this, with a candidness to it that is quite refreshing at times. It's not often that we get films that deal with the feminine side of the coin when it comes to initial sexual encounters - some more successful than others. The writing and acting, though, is all rather underwhelming and it loves a stereotype as it's initial innovation gives way to an Hollywood-esque sisterhood exercise that can be quite cringemaking to watch at times. There's something entirely superficial about the whole thing and after half an hour I just felt that we were being presented with a series of scenarios straight (or not) from the teenage pop-up Kamasutra. It's not bad and at times is quite revealing of attitudes and that physical passion we all felt in our teens, but that quickly gives way to the routine and it loses it's punch.