My introduction to his work
as a director was A Woman Under the Influence, which I bought a
single version of for our
mother, who is petrified of the DVD and will never
watch it.
But I kept thinking of Michael Curtiz's 1945 classic starring Joan Crawford
as a flawed
single mother of two daughters, the elder of whom is a bit of a snake,
as I
watched Elina Knihtila portray Leila, a flawed
single mother of two sons, the elder of whom (Samuli Niittymaki
as Illmari), is a bit of a psycho.