Long Good Thursday

The farmer with the enormous fur hat on his head is called Grump by everyone because he enjoys being grumpy gives terse, laconic answers. Yet the grumpiness is also a protective shield against the world’s injustices. Mielensäpahoittaja, aka Grump, feels like he’s being treated like a flowerpot by his sons as they shunt him to a retirement home. He runs away and, a short time later, ends up coming a courting. He’s been taken with Saimi, a headstrong artist, or more precisely: her special scent, a mixture of chainsaw oil, pine bark, and sawdust. There’s something quite poignant about Grump’s awkward compliments, and from scene to scene you take the old grump more into your heart. Yet as befits a romantic comedy, our hero must also experience that feelings take their own path – love can also find its expression in the cooking of porridge. The book character Grump is wildly popular in Finland and the taciturn dramas have already been adapted to the screen multiple times, including by Mika Kaurismäki.