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You take my breath away
Juha has lost his wife in an accident. Years after, he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.
Dogs Don't Wear Pants
2019 ‘Koirat eivät käytä housuja’ Directed by J-P Valkeapää
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Pekka Strang Krista Kosonen Ilona Huhta Jani Volanen Oona Airola Iiris Anttila Ester Geislerová Ellen Karppo Armands Reinis Samuel Shipway Sofia Kaipainen Viivi Ihalainen Amos Brotherus Onni Vesikallio Aleksandr Garin Zane Ticmane Ludmila Petrova Iveta Medne Helmi Lahti Eeva Soivio Ilkka Vanne Janis Veiksans Laine Kate Ertmane Genadijs Rusanovs Marta Lapekina Taio Olsbo Ingrida Nagle Tomi Salmela Armands Bergis Show All…
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Mona, Les chiens ne portent pas de pantalons, 개는 바지를 입지 않는다, Suņi nevalkā bikses
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A tone of bittersweetness stretches through Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, a Finnish film directed and co-written by J-P Valkeapää. It contains excellent performances from Krista Kosonen and Pekka Strang at the core of the narrative, which follows a man who acquires an unanticipated yet motivational association with a dominatrix after being immobilised emotionally by the tragic death of his wife, and the more sordid and severe their rendezvouses become a more thorough awareness of their emotional necessities commence taking shape.
The focus of attention within the film means that it's not absent from several explicit and challenging images, and the hallway scene is particularly stomach-churning, but Valkeapää keeps away from looking lasciviously at its events and stays within the limits…
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Surprised by the positive attention and generous ratings this is getting because it seems very ill-informed about sex work in general and BDSM in particular, and very conflicted in terms of what it thinks its characters are getting out of it. I think the upbeat ending might have something to do with it – it's lovely and charming and full of good will, and it almost made me reconsider my stance on the rest of the film.
Ultimately though I think Dogs Don't Wear Pants is kind of a mess and doesn't earn the joy it displays in the final few shots. Protagonist Joha finds release and catharsis through exploring BDSM, but the film also weirdly seems to think this…
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this man: i’m sexually liberated now
his daughter: i’m traumatized and you’ve neglected me for weeks. i will grow up into a maladjusted adult
this man: :D
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Finnish S&M romance where a man pays to revisit past trauma in order to feel anything again. The sheer commitment in the two lead performances produces some of the best acting I’ve seen all year. That final shot/needle drop: absolute bliss.
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Mostly expected it to be darker and intenser. It’s an interesting idea ‘better feel pain than feel nothing’ but it could’ve been spiced up a bit. It doesn’t come really further than some leather suits, kinky basements and some tame body horror. Cinematography was nice in the basements and in the clubs with the red and blue lighting but overall it were mostly basic arthouse looks. The synth soundtrack was banging tho.
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According to my all-time stats this is actually the first Finnish film I've ever even seen so I'll be doing some research but am also open towards some recommendations for what Finnish films I should be watching next. So as for this film itself it's one that masterfully deals with it's themes of grief, trauma and acceptance.
Dealing with a middle aged man named Juha (Pekka Strang) who lost his wife due to an accidental drowning. When he went to try and save her he asphyxiated momenterally, Juha would often have visions of him and his wife both down in the middle of the lake. He is looking after their daughter and as his daughter is getting a tongue piercing…
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Fascinating portrayal of BDSM, a movie both about sexuality, and many other things told -via- sexuality. It doesn't fall into the trap of 'fethisizing' BDSM just to be 'non-judgemental'. The characters are not some vehicles to tell a story about BDSM, but it is an organic part of their identity. First, I was also worried if the movie was doing the opposite (BDSM being instrumentalized as a sole 'consequence' of individual trauma) when the story started with a painful traumatic experience leading the protagonist to accidentally discover his submissive tendencies. However, mainly through its deadpan humor, the film sets the balance really well. It doesn't necessarily offer BDSM as a solution or a way of healing for the trauma, but…