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The River

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.

Top Cast

  • Antti Ikkala

    Antti Ikkala

    Kimmo

  • Jyri Ojansivu

    Jyri Ojansivu

    Janne

  • Sanna Hietala

    Sanna Hietala

    Anni

  • Tuukka Huttunen

    Tuukka Huttunen

    Teppo, Annin entinen mies

  • Samu Loijas

    Samu Loijas

    Loponen, Tepon ystävä

  • Antti Mikkola

    Antti Mikkola

    Santeri

  • Jari Virman

    Jari Virman

    Eero

  • Pekka Hannonen

    Pekka Hannonen

    Mikko

  • Juha Kukkonen

    Juha Kukkonen

    Esa, muusikko

Overview

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.

Rating

6.1 / 10
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An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

Departure

6.3 2016