Portraits of Women
Portraits of Women | |
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Finnkino Oy (Finland)Stockholm Film (Sweden) | |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Finland |
Language | Finnish |
Budget | FIM 655,500[1] |
Portraits of Women (
The
With 316,859 viewers, Portraits of Women was the second most watched film of 1970 after
Plot
Pertti (
Pertti familiarizes himself with
Saara takes Pert on a city tour and they have a drink together. The filming of Pertti's film starts at a villa located on the archipelago. Despite their differences, Pertti and cinematographer Peter von Spaak (Jaakko Talaskivi), who supports a "modern" vision of cinema, try to capture Ulla and Sven's spontaneous love on film.
Pertti goes to meet Saara at the summer villa, where she has cycled for the weekend. Saara still has such a cold attitude towards Pertti that Pertti first plans to drive to Helsinki for the night. However, Saara asks him to stay and over the course of the night they become lovers. They also sleep together at Liisa and Jussi's place, and when Liisa finds out, she threatens to reveal to Jussi that she slept with Pertti herself. The atmosphere starts to become so chilling that Pertti and Saara start looking at the apartment they share.
Ulla says that she had an argument with Sven, and Pertti decides to continue filming as the other side of the couple making love. During filming, Peter has to constantly warn the eager Pertti to keep his head out of the picture. However, Sven appears at the villa and reconciles with Ulla. At the same time, Liisa has revealed her relationship with Pertti to Saara, who in turn has found Pertti's notebook with the contact information and characteristics of 38 women. Pertti explains to an enraged Saara that his interest in women is purely professional, and they end up making love in Saara's school ballroom.
Sven and Ulla announce that they are getting married. Pertti pays for the
Cast
- Jörn Donner as Pertti 'Pertsa', maker on sexfilm
- Ritva Vepsä as Saara Suominen, teacher of biology
- Kirsti Wallasvaara as Liisa, teacher of gymnastic
- Aarre Elo as Jussi, engineer
- Marianne Holmström as Ulla Magdalena Carlsson
- Henrik Gräno as Sven Alarik Pettersson
- Lennart Lauramaa as the film producer
- Hannu Oravisto as a schoolboy
- Jaakko Talaskivi as Peter von Spaak, film cinematographer
Production
The film was shot in Helsinki, Bromarv and Kirkkonummi during August and October in 1969.[1]
Donner admitted that he struggled with the subject of the film. "Somehow, however, I gather my strength so much that I half-seriously write a plot which, when read, sounds pretty crazy. I suddenly notice that the picture of Pertti, the producer returning to Finland, is a picture of me. Pertti is quite stupid, many people think I'm stupid. Pertti makes porn, I'm considered a porn film as a creator. Pertti has relationships with women, with the hostess of the crayfish party, with a young girl, Saara. All kinds of gossip about me."[5]
Reception
The film received a mixed reception from critics after release. Matti Rosvali from
In the 1994 Video-opas film reference book edited by Bello Romano, Esko Rautakorpi mentions in his assessment that "Portraits of Women has a lot of talking and naked people, but still contains a very mediocre story." Rautakorpi gives the film two stars out of five.[6]
On the Finnish site Elitisti, the film has received an average rating of 3.5/5.0 based on the evaluation of seven critics. Mika Vallinen, who gives them a 4.0/5.0 rating, describes the film in his 2004 review as "a hell of a funny and interesting description of (porn) filmmaking and
See also
- List of erotic films
- List of Finnish films of the 1970s
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Naisenkuvia". Elonet (in Finnish). Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Suomen kansallisfilmografia (in Finnish). Helsinki: Edita Oy. 1998. pp. 629–633.
- ^ "Suomen katsotuimmat elokuvat vuonna 1970 (ks. huomautukset!)". Elokuvauutiset.fi (in Finnish). 1 September 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Jutila, Niko (25 January 2015). "Eniten Jussi-palkintoja voittaneet kuvaajat". Elokuvauutiset.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Donner, Jörn (1970). Tapaus naisenkuvia (in Finnish). Otava.
- ISBN 951-0-19839-0.
- ^ Vallinen, Mika (15 January 2004). "Naisenkuvia (1970)". Elitisti.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 19 October 2023.
External links
- Portraits of Women at AllMovie
- Portraits of Women at IMDb