Aleksi Salmenperä
Suède 2004 35mm 90min. swedish o.v. english s-t.

It’s early-midlife crisis time, and nobody’s getting what they want. Fertility clinic psychologist Venla wants a baby. Her athlete boyfriend Antero does not. Neither will change their mind, and each embarks on a trail of increasingly deceitful antics to get their way. Enter Venla’s "curiously single" colleague, Satu. When the two women end up locked in the lab together, Venla finds a conspirator for her latest pregnancy plan, and Satu develops a new crush. Producing Adults is the first feature-length by the talented young Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperä. Superbly acted, the characters in this elegant drama are both endearing and frustrating in their self-centred pursuits of what they think will make them happy. Funny at times, poignant at others, the film manages to avoid the sappy melodrama, all the while reminding us that, as screenwriter Pekko Pesonen explains, "it is important for a child to have loving parents; their sex doesn’t really matter." – MP