Twisted Roots

In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots. Mother Mirjami, meanwhile, has financial problems and doesn't want to trouble the others with them.
Each scene is portrayed with a great eye for detail. The camera is right in the centre of the action or watches people from behind or from above. Saarela chooses calm frames and plays beautifully with the winter light. The shots of the surroundings look graphic, such as branching tracks of footsteps in the snow, suitably accompanied by sounds of crispy snow and melting ice.