

“That’s not art,” he says dismissively of Jansson’s whimsical sketches of hippo-like trolls. At home their family life is bohemian, but it’s clear that Viktor is an authority-wielding paterfamilias. She jokes to friends that she is living in the bleak shadow of her famous sculptor father Viktor Jansson (Robert Enckell). Not for the first time she is swallowing the disappointment of being passed over for a government grant to support her painting – mostly traditional still lifes and portraits. In 2018, GE was dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average after more than a century in. Interestingly with LIGHTS OUT is that while I am one to typically not jump or shriek with horror films and suspense-filled terror, it was the anticipation of. These very limited grace notes tell us that director Sanberg indeed has some visual chops, and could very well have a solid horror feature inside of him that will come out one day.

Its share price has fallen precipitously. Its workforce has been hollowed out, from 333,000 employees in 2017 to fewer than 174,000 at the end of last year. It begins with Jansson as a penniless artist in her 20s, with steady blue eyes and bluntly cropped short blond hair. The corporation has come crashing to Earth in one of the greatest downfalls in business history. Where biopics often end up with a cardboard-tasting blandness, the focus on Jansson’s interior world gives this film moments that really come to life. A clunky script occasionally loosens its grip on the. Covering a decade or so of Jansson’s life from the mid 1940s, it tells of her first madly-in-love relationship with a woman and the story of how her doodles on scraps of paper became a worldwide sensation. With an unnerving monster at its core, great cast and relentless final sequence, Light’s Out is a debut director Sandberg should be proud of. A quietly blazing and passionate performance by Alma Pöysti brings the bisexual Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson to life in this emotional but low-key drama directed by Zaida Bergroth.
