A TIME FOR ROSES (1969) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Risto Jarva
Arto Tuominen, Ritva Vepsä, Tarja Markus,
Eero Keskitalo, Eila Pahkonen, Matti Lehtela
In a cryptic twist on "Vertigo", a documentary filmmaker becomes obsessed with a woman who's dead and a woman he meets who looks just like her. It's a vision of the 21st century from the late 1960s, well ordered and arty and kind of cold, with mod fashions, reel-to-reel technology and inflatable furniture, which suggests that the future ain't what it used to be, and maybe never was. According to IMDb, it's the first feature-length science-fiction movie made in Finland. In Finnish. In black and white. With subtitles.
