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THE LIVING ROOM OF THE NATION
IRELAND PREMIERE
 | QFT
Monday 19 April 9.15pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Jukka Karkkainen / Finland / 2009 / 75mins / Print source: Finnish Film Foundation | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | A documentary film that portrays a number of Finnish living rooms.
The film is a story of changes, the inevitable passing of time, and the human desire to be needed, visible. The living room is the centre of the home where it’s easy to relax and to feel at ease. It paints vivid pictures of its occupants. Granddad’s wall clock and a 1980s style sofa and armchairs in one room and a shabby rug and a welding machine serving as a TV table in another set the stage for everyday drama.
In this film you will find the Finnish have an unending ability to shock and make you laugh at things in unusual ways. As a film you are often left wondering how on earth did the filmmaker capture that moment. One scene, fraught with hilarity and danger when a chip pan goes on fire, becomes an ode to the fear of marital commitment and the platonic love between two male friends.
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