SHADES OF HAPPINESS
by Claes Olsson
synopsis
Paula, an arts teacher and her husband Jarkko Tiensuu, a family therapist for the parish have tried to have a child for some years. Helena and her husband Mikko Raski are career-oriented people, who both work at an IT company. Their relationship is fine until Helena suddenly wants to have a child. The destinies of these couples get mixed in surprising ways after Helena and Paula run into each other at a class reunion. Paula gets pregnant after yet another embryo transfer. Helena on the other hand finds out by accident that Mikko is sterile. Helena's obsessive dream of a child frightens Mikko to move out. Paula has a miscarriage and she collapses. Helena visits the therapist Jarkko unaware that he is Paula's husband. They wind up making love and Helena gets pregnant.
international title: | Shades of Happiness |
original title: | Onnen varjot |
country: | Finland |
year: | 2004 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Claes Olsson |
film run: | 104' |
screenplay: | Anna-Leena Härkönen |
cast: | Tiina Lymi, Nicke Lignell, Milka Ahlroth, Santeri Kinnunen, Anna-Leena Härkönen ja Otto Kanerva |
cinematography by: | Pertti Mutanen |
film editing: | Oskar Franzen |
art director: | Jukka Kärkkäinen |
costumes designer: | Elina Lario |
music: | Yari |
producer: | Risto Salomaa, Leila Lyytikäinen |
production: | Kinoproduction Oy, FilmLance International AB, MTV3, Nordic Film & TV Fund |
backing: | Finnish Film Foundation |
distributor: | Nordisk Film AB |