Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2006 / FC Venus / Finland 2005
Pert Finnish comedy from helmer Joona Tena about disaffected wives and partners who form a soccer team and take on their menfolk’s seventh-division crew for a bet plays a fair, clean game with few penalties.
Pert Finnish comedy from helmer Joona Tena about disaffected wives and partners who form a soccer team and take on their menfolk’s seventh-division crew for a bet plays a fair, clean game with few penalties. It’s summer 2005, and the men on team HeMan reveal they’ll be spending June 2006 in Germany watching the World Cup. Furious Anna (Minna Haapkyla), the g.f. of goalie Pete (Petteri Summanen), hopes to teach them a lesson by making a wager: If her team of neglected partners can beat the boys in a game by the end of the summer, then the men will have to forswear football forever; if the girls lose, they’ll pay for the German jaunt.
112 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Joona Tena
/ Screenplay Outi Keskevaari, Katri Manninen
/ Dir. of Photography Jarkko T. Laine
/ Music Sakari Salli
/ Editor Jukka Nykänen
/ Producer Jarkko Hentula, Mikko Tenhunen
/ Production Talent House
/ Cast Minna Haapkylä, Petteri Summanen, Laura Malmivaara
/ Contact Nordisk Film International Sales, Talent House
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Joona Tena
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