Miss Blue Jeans

Miss Blue Jeans

86 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Aug. 3, 2012

Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.

Miss Blue Jeans

86 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Aug. 3, 2012

Miss Blue Jeans
Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers
Original title Miss Farkku-Suomi
Directors Matti Kinnunen
Writers Matti Kinnunen, Kauko Röyhkä

Cast

Mikko Neuvonen

as Välde

Sanni Kurkisuo

as Pike

Elias Gould

as Sasu

Maria Ylipää

as Kara

P.K. Keränen

as Ana

Ville Myllyrinne

as Heikinoja

Joonas Koivula

as Schoolmate (uncredited)