Tom of Finland (film)
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- Aleksi Bardy
- Miia Haavisto
- Annika Sucksdorff
- Pekka Strang
- Lauri Tilkanen
- Jessica Grabowsky
- Taisto Oksanen
- Seumas Sargent
- Jakob Oftebro
- Niklas Hogner
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| Directed by | Dome Karukoski |
| Written by | Aleksi Bardy |
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| Cinematography | Lasse Frank |
| Edited by | Harri Ylönen |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
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| Budget | €3.8 million[3] |
| Box office | $1.8 million[4][5] |
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.[6]
Tom of Finland premiered on 27 January 2017 at Gothenburg Film Festival and was released theatrically in Finland on 24 February 2017.[3] It was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[7][8]
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 Touko Laaksonen a.k.a. Tom of Finland
- Lauri Tilkanen as Veli (Nipa)
- Jessica Grabowsky as Kaija Laaksonen
- Taisto Oksanen 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.[9][10]
At the 2017 Göteborg Film Festival, the film won the Fipresci Award.[11][12]
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."[13] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[14]
