Product Details

• Actors: Petteri Summanen, Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Juha Veijonen, Antti Virmavirta, Ville Virtanen
• Directors: Johanna Vuoksenmaa
• Producers: Upswing ( Nousukausi ), Upswing, Nousukausi
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: FS-Film
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AQEBVI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #617,953 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Finland released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Finnish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Music Video, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Finnish television director Johanna Vuoksenmaa directs the fish-out-of-water comedy Nousukausi (Upswing). Upwardly mobile couple Janne (Petteri Summanen) and Katri (Tiina Lymi) are jealous of their friends who are going on expensive, exotic vacations. In order to impress them, the couple purchases a role-playing summer vacation package that consists of living in a lower-class housing project. When it comes time to go back to their affluent lifestyle, they realize they've been conned out of their money and possessions. Upswing was shown at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...Upswing ( Nousukausi )

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Brilliant!, December 12, 2005

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Teresa "Teresa" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Upswing ( Nousukausi ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Finland ] (DVD)

Upswing is an absolutely hilarious comedy with unexpected twists in the plot. I have not laughed this hard for ages!

I could not disagree more with the other review written...Yes, this could have been made with big bucks anywhere in Hollywood as it shines great quality work, the actors do a fantastic job, its well produced...and oh so entertaining! Yet it is easy to see its not a typical Hollywood movie. Its original and without too much glimmer.

Not all Finnish movie directors are Kaurismakis,nor do they need to be. There is alot of variety to be found in modern Finnish cinema, and this movie is an excellent, top quality example of it. Five stars without a doubt!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tourism in shanty town, October 16, 2005

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Pablo Martin Podhorzer "Movie Critic, Sociolo... (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Upswing ( Nousukausi ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Finland ] (DVD)

Ideologically the opposite from a Kaurismaki film. A little tale for enjoyment of the bourgeoisie, this black comedy (that isn't so black and has only cheap humor) shows why Finnish cinema hasn't made the rounds around the world in a cloud of success. The conservative end is another sample if globalization of the invasion of mediocre ideas and self assured emptiness. How can you do a comedy about class differences without any commentary about class? How can you show differences without any relation within the two positions? Low class and middle-high class here are like two continents, like tourist destinations. The movie not only shows what criticizes but condones it. Is a movie about what the rich (filmmakers) think about the poor, but is no better than regular television at that. Maybe we must let Hollywood to do Hollywood. Bad movies are made everywhere.