Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
If nothing else, the Finnish film Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydan) deserves a pat on the head for daring to set up one hell of a wacky premise: neo-Nazi Teppo (Peter Franzen) falls for a beautiful blonde Sari (Laura Birn) but then – surprise! – finds out she has a mixed-race son (Yusufa Sidibeh) from an earlier relationship. It sounds on paper like the makings for an insane, blackly-comic update on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) but maybe with an Oi!-punk soundtrack. Alas,Heart is, in fact, a painfully earnest drama, albeit one with thudding comic moments, that still manages to be offensive – but not in a fun way – as well as credibility stretching and tacky. Franzen’s fully committed lead performance represents one of the few redeeming features (young Sidibeh is another) which might partly explain why this ludicrous work from director Dome Karukoskihas secured program slots at both Toronto and Santa Barbara’s film festivals, as well as closer-to-home Goteborg.
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