The House of Branching Love - A Finnish Film at EU Film Showcase
WAS events
A FINNISH FILM SCREENING
2009 AFI EUROPEAN UNION FILM SHOWCASE
"Breaking up is hard to do. Staying together is even harder."
THE
HOUSE OF BRANCHING LOVE
[Haarautuvan
rakkauden talo]
Wednesday, November 11 at 8:45 pm
Saturday, November 14 at 5:00 pm
After the Saturday screening
actresses Elina Knihtilä and Anna Easteden
are present for discussion with the audience
followed by wine/beer reception.
Location:
AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301.495.672
Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to
divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their
common house. But when Paula invites her one night stand, Marco, to the house
and Juhani takes revenge on her by hiring a prostitute, Nina, from his half-brother
and a pimp, Wolffi, to play his new girlfriend in order to force Paula to leave the
house, the box of pandora of their marriage flies open and releases
the plagues of love and hate.
DIR/SCR/PROD Mika Kaurismäki; SCR Sami Keski-Vähälä,
based on the novel by Petri Karra.
Finland, 2009, color, 102 min. In Finnish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Tickets: http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/EUshowcase/house.aspx