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Flare · 2022

Flare 2022

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Girls Girls Girls (Girls, Girls, Girls, Girl Picture)

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The performances are all first class, with any one of the three leads capable of carrying a film on her own.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth-moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.

(Country: Finland; Year: 2022; Director: Alli Haapasalo; Writer: Ilona Ahti, Daniela Hakulinen; Stars: Oona Airola, Mikko Kauppila, Elias Westerberg, Linnea Leino, Henrikki Haavisto, Fathi Ahmed, Jantsu Puumalainen, Oksana Lommi, Aamu Milonoff, Cécile Orblin, Yasmin Najjar, Amos Brotherus, Pablo Ounaskari, Pietu Wikström, Eleonoora Kauhanen)

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Tramps!

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What could have been just another exercise in nostalgia instead emerges as a valuable picture of a grassroots creative movement.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialise on the streets of London.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Kevin Hegge; Stars: Judy Blame, Duggie Fields, Princess Julia)

Full review See: Interview with Kevin Hegge about Tramps!