RARE EXPORTS Jalmari for Helander, 2010
If you are in their thirties like me, you probably remember with nostalgia the film adventure for kids who depopulated the United States in the 80s. Films like The Goonies , Pyramid of Fear or Gremlins, who saw the marriage of two of the leading exponents of the genre, Joe Dante and Chris Columbus , respectively, in the guise of director and writer, were real pity milestones of my youth. Outcasts and dreamers movie where kids were thrown into great adventures that help them grow and come to terms with the much more prosaic world of adult films sometimes naive but truly unique visionary power. Perhaps the fact that you have your head in the clouds helped a lot but when I was a kid I did not do nothing but hope to find an old map or a mysterious force field that warps my life as happened to the young protagonists of those films. I am more than certain that Helander, born in 1976, and was struck by the kind of cinema, also because this work before, certainly not out of place among those titles. Adapted from two of his previous short (which I recommend you see after the movie not detract from the freshness of the story) Rare Exports tells Pietari, boy who lives with his father in Lapland, on the hospitable land not too close to the Monte Korvatunturi, what is said to be the home of Father Christmas and will to face the age-old myth, which, I assure you, has nothing to do with the old red-faced and placid through which a well known multinational tries to sell its soft drinks. Helander then prepares a fantasy adventure tinged with irony and black humor that runs along the edge of horror, in a very intriguing and with a final twist and a clever and amusing story of a band that has been able to discuss his undoubted influences into something original and fresh. Rare Exports, with all its limitations, it is one of those movies that brings back all of a sudden thirteen, a smile on his face so big and that, as far as I'm concerned, it instantly became the new Christmas Classicon. Miracle on 34th Street puppa the stone!
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