Finlandia Is a Sumptuous Takedown of Gender and Appropriation
Finlanda, which screened at this year’s Outfest Fusion. Every frame is gloriously alive and — like its characters — a riot of brightly saturated colors.
Although the narrative takes dark and even tragic turns over the course of the film, it remains a feast for the eyes that you can’t, nor want, to turn away from.Finlandia follows a small community living in Oaxaca, Mexico who identify as muxe, a third gender living outside the binary.
There’s Delrio, the matriarch of the group who pines for a lover in Finland who regularly sends postcards but will likely never return.
Amaranta is a charismatic and beautiful sex worker who’s also carrying on a doomed relationship with a married man. Mariano is the youngest of the group, a bullied school child who’s torn between their mother’s desire for them to become a priest and their truth of being muxe.A young woman named Marta soon enters their lives.
