Nousukausi

They claim that the movie tell about Jakomäki, a suburb in Helsinki Finland. In fact, quite a lot of scenes were shot in Hakunila, a suburb in Vantaa, Finland. For instance, the Siwa the couple visited is located in Hakunila; the flea market was held at approximately the same site, as well as the pub where Petteri and his neighbour had a beer.

The performance is nice by both lead characters. story plot is also seem nice and new. but it gets kinda little stupid in the end. i really wished that idea of wife being adulterous should not be part of plot.

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So the story is about a married couple (not very rich) who want to have vacation or spice the marriage by going to experience as a poor family. but they got conned by their agent.

The story so far is very good, but the idea of the wife having an affair ? yeh she starts to like that young stud , when she went to his apartment for food , there she likes his kitchen and looks . and even she couldn't resists. so she felt ONLY regret because she got caught. and then she got pregnant too. but in the end both reconcile in the end. and got back their home.

Quite frankly, I had totally different kind of anticipations for this film, and I was very strongly taken by surprise when I actually viewed the film-- And very positively so.

Is the Finnish title perhaps misleading, if so, is it for purpose? :-)

I'd actually categorize this as 'Drama-Comedy' or something. And as comedy, I'd acknowledge this being a different kind of representative in that genre, especially for a team of Finns.

I'm not sure how foreigners could understand this film as Finns do, as I expect many of symbols (such as places etc) have distinct meaning for Finns. And for sure that might be true also for people living outside Helsinki.

But the actors were great, and plot -- even though pretty simple -- has funny indeed, and there was couple of twists and turns in it to keep one on toes.

I recommend this for a nice, light and easy entertainment for a Tuesday/Thursday evening. Not to be taken too seriously.

BR; --Tarra

I think that movie was fun, brilliant rain day activity.

And the DVD includes good music video from the greatest band Egotrippi.

Tiina Lymi and Petteri Summanen are magnificent together! This movie have won 3 Jussi-award. Best movie, best script (Mika Ripatti) and best music (Kerkko Koskinen) and I think that movie has really earned the all. It's fun but in the same time dramatic movie. I didn't felt disappointed after seeing this film. It is one of the best films in Finland. But this is only my opinion.

The theme of this film resolves around the fact that nowadays you can buy packaged "adventure" holidays for any part of the world, to deep down Amazonia or even to the North Pole, that is to say if you have the money. But what happens "when you have done it all", you will want something else, something scary with a taste of the real stuff and real risk. This is where the post modern holiday enters, why not go someplace really dangerous, two weeks in a country torn by civil war for instance. This is not too far fetched in fact I saw an advert on a newspaper offering a different holiday where you rescue crocodiles. The fact that crocodiles live in unhealthy places and tend to see you as a snack didn't seem to be a problem but on top of you had to pay to participate and these "holidays" although advertised by a charity were far from cheap. So an excellent film, a surprise that Hollywood didn't make a remake out of it but that is all the better as they could very likely mess it up, a bad surprise is that this film is so little know, the copy we saw was subtitled and hard to find.