Klassikokkutulek (2016)
48KKlassikokkutulek (2016). 1h 30m
“Three Middle-aged friends from school and further on, with different track records as well family status, going to their class reunion – it is a good benchmark already. And if the filmmakers are witty and sound enough to create a versatile story and employ versatile actors, then the success should be guaranteed. So was in Denmark (where the original script comes from), later in Finland, and now in Estonia when it was voted The Best Film in the Estonian Entertainment Awards and has become the 1st film with over 1 million euro ticket income in Estonia, exceeding e.g. Avatar and Ice Ages.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTrue, above all, this film is about u0026quot;alphau0026quot; males and their attitudes, containing topics and depictions related to sexuality, health, hush- themes, and visions not considered modern and/or considered plain by several viewers, but, in my mind, there are no scenes one might consider really gross. Even the number of swearwords is smaller than in many u0026quot;decentu0026quot; films. There are dozens of scenes when you can laugh or giggle, in some of them due to characters or events in the background, and the performances are at least good, if not great (high five! to all three male leads who act without false shame; btw, both Mait Malmsten and Ago Anderson are no genuine comedians, but versatile character actors).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn general, I am not much into remakes and adaptations, but films like Klassikokkutulek deserve an exception here – you really need to identify yourself with the venues, characters and the actors-actresses you really know, in order to u0026quot;absorbeu0026quot; the events and jokes in full. So a famous Estonian screenwriter Martin Algus has provided substantial supplements to the original script – even if the Danes and Estonians are not so far and different.”
