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Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland
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Tom of Finland is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by Aleksi Bardy. It stars Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, a Finnish homoerotic artist. Tom of Finland premiered on 27 January 2017 at Gothenburg Film Festival and was released theatrically in Finland on 24 February 2017.
Feb 24, 2017 · With Pekka Strang, Seumas F. Sargent, Chris Myland, Alf Myreen. Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.
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- Biography, Drama
- Dome Karukoski
- 2017-02-24
Oct 13, 2017 · Tom of Finland honors its subject with an empathetic, even-handed, and above all entertaining look at the pioneering art he produced from private turmoil. Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen...
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- Pekka Strang
- Dome Karukoski
- Film Väst
Oct 13, 2017 · This fiction film, directed by Dome Karukoski and written by Aleksi Bardy (in collaboration with, apparently, five other scenarists/contributors), is a heartfelt tribute to the artist. It’s also a too-often diffuse one.
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Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture.
Feb 8, 2017 · Tom of Finland is a dutiful join-the-dots biopic that rightly shines a light on an important icon of LGBTQ culture. It falls short of the liberating, subversive power of Laaksonen’s...
