Terapia

I guess you need either Tommi Korpela or Alma Pöysti if you want to make a Finnish movie. This one has both. That is a good start.

We have a couple who therapists/wellness gurus who are themselves on the rocks. They are heavily invested in a property they are trying to make work as a resort. They run very expensive five-day workshops for couples and we witness one of those.

Personally, I find it very unethical to have three different couples in therapy at the same time, but okay. For the movie. Fine. Except that one of them is alone. You kind of guess immediately why, but the movie tries to be coy about it for a while.

Now, the problem is that each of the couples has their own things to work through, so we have four different stories. With a two hour movie, that gives each of them roughly half and hour. Is that enough? No. So, we end up in a situation where we are kind of rushing through things and the end results don't really feel earned or organic. This constant rush also makes the editing feel pretty awkward at times.

I'm still giving this a 6/10 because I do like the performances. These were a weakness in Finnish movies for a very long time, but apparently things are getting better.

The humor is pretty dry and I did like that, but at the same time the contrast between the lighter and the darker elements just didn't work for me. They just did it clumsily. Maybe it was the editing again.