Reconciliation

Six years ago, director Tuukka Temonen was publicly angry with critic Anton Vanha-Majamaa, who compared his film to metric pizza. Now they met at the snacks.

You have to write this thing in a self -format.

It’s nice that the criticism talks, I thought, but this is already too much. You can mumble and diagnosis about an anxiety, but the claim about low motives threatened my credibility as a critic.

Temonen’s attack seemed inappropriate. The right of the election critic to be critical, as long as it is rightly done. I don’t want to deal with the subject of criticism, it is not part of my job description. And I don’t like the artist trying to influence my work. It easily feels like a company to silence.

It took years. I did not write about Temos or his films because the writings would have been seen as either acknowledgment or as a delight.

Last November, I finally emailed Temos. I didn’t want apologies, I just wanted to chat. Time felt ripe. And I no longer work as a critic.

I said I thought about Temo and asked if he would like to meet and talk about criticism.

Preferably, the director answered. He had also thought about me many times.

The star stage is thinking about

We meet at the studio of Temonen’s production company Option in Eastern Helsinki. He presents the premises, offers a drink and sits at the conference table. Sturdy winter boots remind that Temonen lives on land, Iit.

Temonen goes straight to *coach *. He continues to disagree with me and points out that the movie has also received good reviews, four stars.

The director speaks with a gentle and sturdy note. He knows his value from half the half.

– I understand really well if you don’t like the movie, but it’s not one \\ star \\ now. It’s two and a half, three.

Temonen has been thinking a lot about the stars. He needs unity in them.

Temonen’s films clearly get too few stars, many others too much. Is the new praised *Myrskyluoto Maija *indeed the same character in movie history as *godfather *, he thinks.

Iitti’s judgment: Okay movie.

Director of Finnish Shit

There are signs of Temosen’s work everywhere in the interview.

On the wall there is a poster for the *Presidents *documentary (2014), a magazine printed on the table *and Apulanta movie *You made us a beautiful *(2016) book published on the side. Temonen played bass in Apulanta from 1993 to 2004.

Temonen is a director who has enough critics to say. * Presidents* received mostly praise from critics,* you made us beautiful* everything between two and five stars. The latter received over one hundred thousand spectators in theaters.

From then on, the ride has been cold. *Coach*,*Nordic Harvest*and*Vares X*have received and left out of their viewers. Based on the reviews, it could be interpreted that Temonen is only deteriorated as a director.

Temonen feels that he is unfair in one star spiral. Of course, it is not the case, because the * time I got * (2020), for example, received three stars from Hesar.

The \”Stamp of Finland’s shit director\ who was hit in the online chat, seems unfair because the actors are praised.

– It is different whether the end results are good. But I know the work of the instructor. I refuse to be a bad instructor, Temonen says.

He believes that critics are particularly nailed to him. This is because he could not keep his mouth in the stream.

Fencing

The nasty silence from a respected journalist returned Temonen’s youth to the punk times and the middle finger was upright. In Somme and at the film industry, he mocked Kinnus \”pretty sad\”.

Did Temone noticed that he had the right to do so?

– Of course.

But after all, Kalle Kinnunen didn’t mock her?

Temonen interprets the critic as referring to him. The amateur director, Soikkelik, lives in Iit.

Temonen thinks of criticism as \”fencing\”. I note that critics are not written for the authors. This is a text that talks with the work. Critics are generally not interested in dialogue with the author.

That’s why I refused to call when I was asked to *sannikka

Personally, I do not feel the need to apologize. However, I say I understand how bad it could have felt. I have written non -fiction books on which critical reviews have been published.

Still, I want to add that I felt bad too.

Gallagher brothers as role models

Temonen once claimed that I was barking at *coach *because \”I don’t like success\”. It was unfair. I was wondering if I would take me seriously as a critic and journalist.

– Did you really think that, Temonen asks her surprised.

Well, nowadays I didn’t go to scrap. But why make claims when they were not based on anything?

– It’s completely true. I don’t know you. I read criticism and interpret it in my own way – which does not encounter in any form with reality.

– The more gross the statement you can give, the more secure it will provide the reader something. It’s just entertaining. But in this case too, I have not understood that you took it personally.

Temonen refers several times to how I wrote my criticism for him. I argue, but it seems to be a bit dishonest.

Of course, I was thinking a little bit about Temo.

And I can’t claim that I wouldn’t have a treat with malice. I wanted to write a good text, and often it means entertaining. And what’s more fun than a decent Lypyay? It is wonderful to exaggerate and use strong expressions.

Criticism is journalism but allows creative freedoms. Sometimes the text takes with it, and only in the end I realize how many stars I want to give to the movie. It may be that for * coach *, a two -star estimate eventually developed into a single star.

\”And one is better because it attracts more attention,\” Temonen says.

I don’t deny.

Young and stupid

Our conversation is closer to three hours. We like many of the same movies: *Elf *, *JFK *, *Big Short *. Every now and then we return to *coach *.

I say that the * Wolf of Wall Street * style movie wouldn’t have been worth making on such a small budget. Temonen agrees.

We have a nice time.

Temonen does not apologize for his behavior, and I do not wait. He took a $ 200,000 loan for * coach *. Yes, I would be foxing if the largest newspaper in the country was described by the country’s largest newspaper as a \”ordered metric pizza ordered at the needle table\”.

We do the interview shortly before * jellyfish does not have the premiere of the Heart * movie. Temonen’s seventh long film is the director’s perception of \”Art\”.

All this is finally just a job. There are much more important things outside. Although I don’t like Temonen’s movies, we can still be good for each other.

The way Temoset has talked about the disease in public. Life doesn’t have to stop.

– Fortunately, Olga is like that, positive. Not terribly worry about the future or miss the past. This moment that is now, it’s good for him, Temonen says.

He goes on to say that this moment is nice too.

– First of all, it is not terribly sensible to collect enemies for themselves. Insulting is also unnecessary, especially in revenge. But then I was young and stupid.

Yes, I will. It’s been a while.

Temonen points out that during the evening we have been feeling the same movies. Our taste is quite uniform – except one.

– You just wonder that Vi \\*\\*u, you like*big short*, but you don’t like*coach*. What goes wrong here?

Dramatic decision

We take pictures three weeks later, * Jellyfish does not have a heart * on Monday after the premiere of the Heart * movie. The atmosphere is auxiliary.

Hesar’s Tero Kartastenpää has raised the film to the best of the film*,* but the viewer figures have been left in 14th place. Many of the big cities have not presented * jellyfish * at all.

The result is a big disappointment for Temos. The next few days go to the theaters. As a producer, his job is to sell the movie, at a time.

Then Temone drops the bomb.

– Yes, this was the last.

Oh for a movie?

– Yes.

Temonen says that it just doesn’t make sense. Even with this movie, he makes a loss. The Film Foundation only received a small marketing and distribution support, and no channel bought the movie in advance. Now, the rights of performance are in the aftermath at a ridiculous price.

Words fail me. Consolation would seem tasteless, after all, I have been barking in Temonen’s works in public. I say quitting is a sad thing.

– Yes. I don’t know. Is it?

After the release of the story, Temonen is still in touch and refines his messages. He emphasizes that he will stop making movies at his own peak. The others will continue to be made.

– But doing this in this way ended with this movie, Temonen writes in SMS.

*Fixed 1.2. 12:24 pm: Added Temonen’s focus at the end of the story. He does not stop making movies completely, but only for self -publishing movies. Added to the title that Temonen will stop guiding on its own peak.*