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TULNUKAS 2 EHK VALDISE TAGASITULEK 17 OSAS

ALIEN 2 OR THE RETURN OF VALDIS IN 17 CHAPTERS

Rasmus Merivoo
EE, 2024, 100 Min

20 years after he was abducted by aliens, Valdis returns to a new, ‘woke’ Estonia. In the matriarchy drugs are legal, men are delicate beings and electricity is renewable. For the simple-minded macho it's pure horror. Luckily however, he has allies underground. A completely twisted comedy featuring an unbridled humour that nobody is immune to.

#feature #comedy #political

Performance

2024-11-06 | 13:00
Obenkino
2024-11-09 | 15:00
Glad-House

Valdis' old friends, Märt and Ott, who today work for the burger-frying police and spend the whole working day smoking joints, want to show him how life in Estonia now works. But Valdis - already a little slow on the uptake - does not want to and indeed cannot comprehend what he sees. When the vaccination that is supposed to provide relief degenerates into a euphoric orgy, he ends up in the hiding place of other vaccination sceptics; the only ones who know that the earth is flat. They plan to declare war on the vegan surveillance state at an upcoming class reunion. Twelve years on from his short film 'ALIEN OR: VALDI'S ESCAPE IN 11 CHAPTERS', Rasmus Merivoo presents the sequel thereof; an absurd story that itself comes across like the actual alien abduction. In an abstruse world he serves up shameless humour that goes below the belt in the truest sense of the word; at times almost unmercifully so. The whole thing is less a cynical parody of a 'woke' way of life and more of people and ideologies themselves, one in which everyone is the brunt of the joke: feminists, sexists, men both "weak" and "strong", nationalists, conspiracy theorists and the polyamorous. Valdi's childhood trauma, in turn the basis of his destructive behaviour, also proves to be a national trauma.

Text: Merlin Webers

06.11.2024 | 13:00 | Obenkino (original version with English subtitles)

09.11.2024 | 15:00 | Glad-House (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

 

Kamera
Jako Krull (Kratt)
Schnitt
Rasmus Merivoo
Ausstattung
Krete Tarkmees
Musik
Van Tammets
Darsteller
Märt Avandi, Ott Sepp, Vallo Kirs, Liisa Pulk, Kaia Skoblov
Produzent
Rain Rannu & Tõnu Hiielaid
Produktion
Tallifornia (Estonia)
Rasmus Merivoo

Rasmus Merivoo - Director Rasmus Merivoo is one of the most unique Estonian filmmakers in recent

times. His film school short “Alien — saving Valdis in 11 chapters” (2006) became an instant cult classic because of its bold and original storytelling. After a long period of different projects Rasmus returned to writing & directing with feature films “Kratt” (2020, Fantasia, BIFAN, Cottbus etc.) and domestic box-office hit “Alien 2 or The Return of Valdis in 17 chapters”(2024).

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