Patrick has a thing about magic, and he may need some, as auds figure out long before Esko does, that the shorn-haired boy has cancer. Other factors have led to this dire stand: His scrappy, long-suffering mother (Maija Junno) has finally left his ineffectual, drink-prone dad (Heikki Hela) his big brother (Arttu Kapulainen) fancies himself a rock star and his almost mute, frequently incontinent grandfather (Sulevi Peltola) keeps wandering off lost in memories of being an airman on the wrong side of WWII.īut mostly Esko is getting over an unusual summer, in which he was befriended by Patrick (Emil Lundberg), an odd Swedish boy on the other side of the trestle. He has a hood over his head and his hands handcuffed behind his back and he's ready to jump-all this despite, according to flashbacks, the miserable failure of the same Harry Houdini trick earlier that night, during a fractious school talent show.
Twelve-year-old Esko (Miikka Enbuske) stands on the railroad bridge over a small river separating Finland and Sweden in the far north. Pic is set in the mid-'70s in the dead of winter. Unsentimental period piece is fair game for all fests-kid-friendly ones, especially-and, given recent success of "Man Without a Past," it could see more interest than most Scandi fare. My Life as a Dog," Finnish-style, might be one way to describe "The Handcuff King," a rare co-production between Finns and Swedes that shows tension and farcical humor in a border town. With: Miikka Enbuske, Emil Lundberg, Heikki Hela, Maija Junno, Arttu Kapulainen, Sulevi Peltola, Lina Hofverberg, Janne Hyytiainen, Ralph Carlsson, Christian Sandstrom. Reviewed at Seattle Film Festival, June 11, 2003. Camera (color), Hans Welin editor, Kauko Lindfors music, Samuli Laiho production designer, Risto Karhula costumes, Elina Kolehmainen sound (Dolby), Jerky Rahkonen special effects, Klaus Hedstrom. (International sales: Nordisk Film, Copenhagen.) Produced by Claes Olsson, Goran Lindstrom.ĭirected, written by Arto Koskinen. Retrieved from Ī Kinoproduction Oy (Helsinki) production, in co-production with Moviemakers Nord and Filmpool Nord, with support from Finnish Film Foundation, Swedish Film Institute, Nordic Film and TV Fund, Em-images, Yle-TV1.
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