Heart of a Lion
TIFF 2013 | Heart of a Lion (Dome Karukoski, Finland/Sweden)—Contemporary World Cinema
By Robert Koehler | 08/31/2013 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2013
By Robert Koehler Marrying narrative contrivances with topical real-world issues is always a bad idea: the former is dead certain to spell trouble from the start, the latter usually ensures a stolid movie. Thus, Dome Karukoski’s Heart of a Lion, which performs this very shotgun marriage with unearned gusto. Screenwriter Aleksi Bardy strains to justify…
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