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This was a spectacularly beautiful movie about a brief, but heartwarming encounter. Film Review: 'A Moment in the Reeds'. There's an admirable quiet intensity to "A Moment in the Reeds," a first feature by London-based Mikko Makela set in. "A Moment in the Reeds" is deliberately spare in all departments, heightening impact through restraint.

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Thus there's no musical scoring at all until past the two-thirds mark; Iikka Salminen's cinematography is plain at first, waxing more lyrical as emotions grow warmer. Movie Reviews in one sentence (or you know like the whole thing, whatever floats your boat). In the end, do we recommend A Moment in the Reeds? The story behind A Moment in the Reeds is an interesting one. Born and raised in Finland, the London-based filmmaker and actor Mikko Makela felt "compelled to fill the queer void in Finnish cinema" and so returned to his homeland to shoot his debut feature. Mikko Makela's a Moment in the Reeds (Tämä Ketki Kaislikossa) is an LGBT romance about a Finnish man and a Syrian refugee.

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This is a movie with its heart in the right place. It pictures the short-lived and yet intense affair between a young Finn (Jaane Puustinen) and the equally young and. A stunningly intimate romance between two men over a few days in the woods in Finland.

One is an immigrant, a Syrian man seeking an honest living and freedom from oppression, and the other is an emigrate, a Finnish man. But A Moment in the Reeds is stunning in its own right, a trailblazing film for Finland — it's one of the first movies made in the country to feature a (Especially since the movie goes on to suggest that this furtive act of looking, noticed by the predatory friend, invites his character's rape later that night). A Finnish-Syrian romance - a new queer feature drama. Since I live in Sardinia I didn't get a chance to see a screening and I was so adamant to see this movie I just ordered the dvd, hoping I would love it.