FOREIGN MOVIES: “Kyrsyä – Tuftland.” / “Wild.” / “Room 304.”

“Kyrsyä – Tuftland” (2017, Tubi) English: Tuftland) Finnish horror film, adapted from a play of the same name by Neea Viitamäki. Tired of the rat race, a headstrong textile student accepts a summer job at the secluded and self-sufficient village of Kyrsyä. As time goes on, the offbeat citizens begin to reveal their true nature.

       Veera W. Vilo is a fine enough actress, both gullible wonder and inquisitive guts but overcome with boredom–just to venture in a strange village to try something new. The feature tosses a few intriguing questions and hints of surreal mystery. But, I think, director Roope Olenius (who co-wrote the movie with Neea Viitamäki) ran out of imagination on how to resolve the conflict so, okay, let’s just end this. 🎥💻📽

“Wild” (2016, Tubi) German drama. The protagonist, a young woman named Ania, lives in seclusion in a prefabricated housing estate in Halle-Neustadt. At her job as an IT specialist in an advertising agency, she is harassed by her tyrannical boss. One day, on her way home from work, Ania meets a wolf in a park.

 

       I must say this little movie, directed by Nicolette Krebitz, is A-1 in weirdness although this is not the weirdest movie that I ever saw. But true, eerily provocative and insanely original. Added credits to Lilith Stangenberg for the fine acting. 🎥💻📽

“Room 304” (2011, Tubi) Danish drama film, directed by Birgitte Stærmose. Tales of sex, violence and corruption unfold as the lives of guests and staff intersect at a Copenhagen hotel.

       

This little movie that started quite intriguingly, with hints of mystery and murder, kind of fizzled out in the end. Fact is, the ensemble acting is stellar, and the movie included a fine performance by Spanish Ariadna Gil as a bored stewardess Teresa, Danish Stine Stengade as an unhappy housewife/hotel employee Nina, Filipina Lourdes Faberes as The Mai, and the nervous, grim-faced front desk clerk Martin, played by Swedish/Danish David Dencik. 🎥💻📽