Teuvo Tulio is a pioneer of Finnish cinema—his films, all but one of which are melodramas, sharply focus on women’s place in a society dominated by men. Similar to Mizoguchi and Ophuls, Tulio’s women often surrender themselves to love, bringing about their destruction and ruin. Cited by Aki Kaurismäki as one of his idols and the greatest master of Finnish melodrama, Tulio is ripe for discovery. Presented with the National Audiovisual Archive, Finland. All films in Finnish with English subtitles.
The Village Voice article about Teuvo Tulio"[T]o judge from the four-feature sampling that begins Monday, director-writer-producer-actor Teuvo Tulio (1912–2000) is a cinematic "found object" as ferocious as South Korea's outlaw genre artist Kim Ki-young (subject of a recent Walter Reade retro) or the Mexican maestros of the cabaretera who may someday get their due." MoreThe L Magazine article about Teuvo Tulio"In one of the most exciting rediscoveries of the year, BAM’s retrospective of Finnish auteur Teuvo Tulio offers four masterpieces of melodrama, all made between 1938 and 1946, whose cinematic grandeur will be nothing less than magnificent on the big screen." MoreThe Golden Age of Finnish Cinema at Scandinavia HouseScandinavia House in New York spotlights Finland's national cinema with films by Valentin Vaala, Erik Blomberg, and others. More
