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Tom of Finland

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Finland, Sweden, Denmark · 2017
1h 55m
Director Dome Karukoski
Starring Pekka Strang, Lauri Tilkanen, Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn
Genre Drama

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions.

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The Playlist by Bradley Warren

While often hamstrung by genre conventions, particularly in the picture’s first half, Tom of Finland is a passable entry into the LGBT film canon and largely successful in selling the subcultural relevance of the eponymous artist’s beefcake drawings.

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TheWrap by Dan Callahan

Tom of Finland is a film about a man who was famous for very dirty drawings, but it is unfortunately restricted by a dehydrated kind of good taste from ever being very dirty or very sexy.

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Empire by David Parkinson

Having taken such pains to establish Tom’s Finnish background and its attendant dangers, Karukoski hurtles through the sketchy American section without exploring any of its crucial issues in sufficient depth.

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RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny

Its lively finale is heartening, given the patience that Laaksonen was obliged to exercise before he could live his life out in the open. But the insights of the movie are too scant for much of a real impression to take hold of the viewer.

80

Total Film by Josh Winning

If the imagery is less racy than TOF fans may be used to, Pekka Strang’s quiet turn as Laaksonen has a simmering power.

60

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

An interesting film rather than an engrossing one, and it’s hard not to wish it was a little more energised by its subject’s enduringly transgressive spirit.

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