#the happiest day in the life of Olli Mäki

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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016)

dir. Juho Kuosmanen

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[gregor-samsung]

Hymyilevä mies [The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki] (Juho Kuosmanen - 2016)

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[stainedglassgardens]

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016)

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[communicants]

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)

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[shihlun]

Juho Kuosmanen -

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki / Hymyilevä mies

2016

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[thrashard-banshee]

Oona Airola & Jarkko Lahti, film: The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki, directed by: Juho Kuosmanen

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[thefilmstage]

Our reviews of the weekend’s new releases:

Free Fire

The Lost City of Z (expanding wide)

The Promise

The Happiest Day In the Life of Olli Mäki

Slack Bay

Tramps

Sand Castle

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[mubiblog]

★★★★ "Absolutely lovely" — Time Out London "Olli Mäki goes the distance"— Village Voice ★★★★ "a film of immense humanity and charm: the very best kind of date movie" — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian "Will have you smiling" —IndieWire ★★★★ "If Aki Kaurismaki remade Raging Bull, it would look like Juho Kuosmanen’s 16mm monochrome debut" — Empire Magazine THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI is in UK + US cinemas today! Find times at ollimakifilm.com

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[missvengeance]

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki

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[reassurance]

Hymyilevä mies (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki). Juho Kuosmanen. 2016. Finland/Germany/Sweden.

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[kansassire]

Hymyilevä mies (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki),2016, Juho Kuosmanen

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Hymyilevä mies [The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki] (Juho Kuosmanen - 2016)

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[cristalconnors]

70. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2017)

The most miraculously light and effervescent boxing film you’ve ever seen, willing to engage in the familiar beats of a sports biopic but making them feel remarkably earnest and earned. 

Rating: 9.2/10

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[disappointingyet]

Hytti nro 6 (Compartment No6)

Director Juho Kuosmanen Stars Seidi Haarla, Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova Finland/Russia 2021 Language Russian, Finnish (English subtitles) 1hr 47mins Colour 

Odd couple take the slow train to the Arctic Circle

Trains, I think, make great settings for films. Trains with compartments, especially: you’ve got privacy and imposed intimacy, which can (and I can testify to this) provide an opportunity for someone to emotionally unburden themself to a stranger. But – unlike on a plane – you’re not completely stuck, there’s the rest of the train to explore, to escape to. And in this film, how the two main characters feel about each other at any given point can be judged by whether they are willing to be in the compartment together or whether they take refuge in the corridor or the dining car or on a frozen station platform.

We’re on the train from Moscow to Murmansk, a journey that takes at least a day and a half. Ljoha (Yuriy Borisov), a young Russian, is travelling up to work in a vast mining complex. His uneasy companion is Laura (Seidi Haarla), a Finnish student in her thirties off to see the Kanozero petroglyphs. The trip isn’t her idea – she was meant to be travelling with her girlfriend Irina (Dinara Drukarova), a pretentious and self-satisfied Russian academic, but when Irina bailed on the plan, Laura stubbornly went ahead with it, and that leaves her alone with a bloke equipped with lots of food and more to drink.

Ljoha is alternately puppyish and stroppy. He tries bad-boy posturing, but that usually crumbles. We don’t get to know that much about him, partly because this is Laura’s story and Laura isn’t a massively curious person. Or maybe in Finland it’s not polite to ask about other people’s lives.

In broad outline, this is a classic travelling movie: two apparently mismatched strangers slowly working out what they both enjoy. It works because it’s told in a patient way that doesn’t require big lurches in their attitude towards each other – their connection progresses convincingly and naturally, with no forced twists.

The film is shot on grainy film (with some camcorder footage), and it feels tangibly cold and uncomfortable and bleary in the train, a contrast with Irina’s smug Moscow flat. This is a film of close close-ups, one mostly told with faces rather than action. 

(I spent a while trying to figure out when it is set: Laura has a cassette Walkman and there are no mobile phones, so I was guessing mid-‘90s, but then it turns out both characters have seen Titanic [and, I learn, the rock drawings weren’t discovered until 1997), so maybe 1999?)

Director Juho Kuosmanen made the very lovely The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki, possibly the most warm-hearted art-house film of recent times. Compartment No6 is a moodier creature, although it’s very funny in places, but it’s another terrific, humane piece of filmmaking.

I saw Compartment No6 at the 2021 London Film Festival

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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)

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