Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox film Tom of Finland is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by Aleksi Bardy. It stars Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, a Finnish homoerotic artist.[1]
Tom of Finland premiered on 27 January 2017 at Gothenburg Film Festival and was released theatrically in Finland on 24 February 2017.[2] It was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[3][4]
Premise
Touko Laaksonen returns home after serving in World War II. In post-war Helsinki, he makes a name for himself with his homoerotic drawings of muscular men. Before finding fame, he finds challenges from his sister and Finnish society due to his art.
Cast
- Pekka Strang as [[Tom of Finland|Touko Laaksonen Template:Aka Tom of Finland]]
- Lauri Tilkanen as Veli (Nipa)
- Jessica Grabowsky as Kaija Laaksonen
- Template:Ill as Alijoki
- Seumas Sargent as Doug
- Jakob Oftebro as Jack
- Troy T. Scott as Tom's man
- Werner Daehn as Müller
- Þorsteinn Bachmann as editor of the Physique Pictorial Office
Reception
Awards
At the 2016 Finnish Film Affair (a "work-in-progress forum" running alongside the Helsinki International Film Festival), Tom of Finland shared the Best Pitch prize, splitting the award money with Post Punk Disorder.[5][6]
At the 2017 Göteborg Film Festival, the film won the Fipresci Award.[7][8]
Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 83% based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Tom of Finland honors its subject with an empathetic, even-handed, and above all entertaining look at the pioneering art he produced from private turmoil."[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[10]
See also
References
External links
Template:Dome Karukoski Template:Finnish submissions for the Academy Award