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.
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]
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]
finland, film, finland, 2017, biographical, drama, film, directed, dome, karukoski, written, aleksi, bardy, stars, pekka, strang, touko, laaksonen, better, known, finland, finnish, homoerotic, artist, finlandfinnish, theatrical, release, posterdirected, bydome. 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 FinlandFinnish theatrical release posterDirected byDome KarukoskiWritten byAleksi BardyProduced byAleksi Bardy Miia Haavisto Annika SucksdorffStarringPekka Strang Lauri Tilkanen Jessica Grabowsky Taisto Oksanen Seumas Sargent Jakob Oftebro Niklas HognerCinematographyLasse FrankEdited byHarri YlonenMusic byHildur Gudnadottir Lasse EnersenProductioncompaniesHelsinki filmi Anagram Vast Fridthjof Film Neutrinos Productions Film VastDistributed byFinnkino Finland MFA Filmdistribution Germany Kino Lorber United States Release dates27 January 2017 2017 01 27 Gothenburg 24 February 2017 2017 02 24 Finland 3 March 2017 2017 03 03 Sweden 5 October 2017 2017 10 05 Germany 13 October 2017 2017 10 13 United States Running time115 minutesCountriesFinland Sweden Denmark Germany 1 United States 2 LanguagesFinnish EnglishBudget 3 8 million 3 Box office 1 8 million 4 5 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 Contents 1 Premise 2 Cast 3 Reception 3 1 Awards 3 2 Critical reception 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksPremise editTouko 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 editPekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen a k a Tom of Finland Lauri Tilkanen as Veli Nipa Jessica Grabowsky as Kaija Laaksonen Taisto Oksanen fi as Alijoki Seumas Sargent as Doug Jakob Oftebro as Jack Troy T Scott as Tom s man Werner Daehn as Muller THorsteinn Bachmann as editor of the Physique Pictorial OfficeReception editAwards edit 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 Goteborg Film Festival the film won the Fipresci Award 11 12 Critical reception edit 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 See also edit nbsp Film portal nbsp LGBT portalList of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Finnish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmReferences edit Lodge Guy 11 February 2017 Film Review Tom of Finland Variety Tom of Finland Gothenburg Film Festival Retrieved 25 February 2017 a b Karukoski Announces Tom Of Finland Cast In Berlin Nordic Drama 15 February 2016 Retrieved 22 December 2016 Tom of Finland Box Office Mojo Retrieved 5 June 2022 Tom of Finland The Numbers Retrieved 4 September 2017 Keslassy Elsa 15 September 2016 Protagonist Helsinki Filmi Unveil Tom of Finland Teaser Variety Retrieved 22 December 2016 Tom of Finland valittiin Suomen Oscar ehdokkaaksi Kaleva 4 September 2017 Retrieved 4 September 2017 Tom of Finland film to vie for foreign language Oscar nomination Yle 4 September 2017 Retrieved 4 September 2017 Keslassy Elsa 22 September 2016 Post Punk Disorder Tom of Finland Scoop Finnish Film Affair Awards Variety Aftab Kaleem 23 September 2016 Finnish Film Affair Tom Of Finland Punk Syndrome split Best Pitch prize Screen Daily Alissa Simon 4 February 2017 Sami Blood Tops 40th Goteborg Film Festival Variety Here are the Dragon Award winners Press release Gothenburg Film Festival 4 February 2017 Archived from the original on 17 February 2017 Tom of Finland 2017 Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved 5 June 2022 Tom of Finland Reviews Metacritic Retrieved 9 February 2018 External links editOfficial website in Finnish Official website Tom of Finland at IMDb nbsp Tom of Finland at AllMovie Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tom of Finland film amp oldid 1181011056, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
