The first images of Light Light Light evoke the transition to adulthood through the sensitive vision of Mariia, a film by Inari Niemi, Finland, a teenager who comments on the Chernobyl disaster. She remembers the repercussions on her village in Finland: a cloud of rain falling from a sky with pink/purple hues. When she meets the gaze of her classmate, Miranda, a question arises: is true love as strong as a nuclear explosion?
Miranda is a mysterious young woman with a convoluted family relationship. When the latter asks her to pretend that she is her friend, then to teach her Swedish, a real friendship develops between the two young women, despite their different socio-economic backgrounds. Slowly, despite the ups and downs of life, they explore their romantic feelings.
Using clever ellipses favoring jumps in time, director Inari Niemi tells the story of this youthful love in Finland in the 90s, with mystery and tenderness, against a backdrop of tragedy, while Mariia remembers, 20 years later later, his memories. In its theme of youthful summer love, Light Light Light sometimes evokes My Summer of Love (2004, Pawel Pawlikowski) or even Cocoon (2020, Leonie Krippendorff). Nominated in a few film festivals, Light Light Light is also worth for the beauty of its images and its summery photo direction which evokes nostalgia for a bygone era, an idyll.
INFO | The film LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT will be presented in theaters during the image+nation festival
in original Finnish and Swedish version, with French subtitles.
To get tickets https://www.image-nation.org
