3x Teuvo Tulio (Standard Edition)

A trio of surreal melodramas from Finnish director Teuvo Tulio including CROSS OF LOVE, RESTLESS BLOOD and the notorious SENSUELA

A mad, dreamlike combination of surrealist imagery and unhinged emotional intensity, the films of Finnish directorTeuvo Tulio(1912-2000) are melodramas untethered from any sense of naturalism or narrative logic (or often good taste), operating in the same glorious, hallucinatory space as the subversive Brechtian melodramas of Douglas Sirk and R.W. Fassbinder.
CROSS OF LOVE (1946) Grizzled old lighthouse keeper Oscar Tengstrm loses his daughter Riitta (Tulio’s frequent collaborator Regina Linnanheimo) to the pitfalls of the city and rakishly handsome Mauri (Ville Salminen). One day she meets a sensitive young man Henrik (Rauli Tuomi) who turns out to be a painter and wants her to model – DEAR GOD – half-naked, tied to a cross with her dress torn open.
RESTLESS BLOOD (1946) Blo