Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana!

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana! (Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana), 1994
35mm, Black & White, 60

In this entertaining road movie, which is a cinematic equivalent of the novella in literature, Valto and Reino set out on the road in search of what they value most in life, vodka and coffee. But their dreams are squelched by two hitchhikers, the Russian Klaudia and the Estonian Tatiana. Though the two women are interested in our protagonists, the latter prefer staring at their vodka bottles to talking. In this comedy four people travel in silence in a car and spend an innocent night at a hotel. While satirizing Finnish culture Kaurismäki displays his mastery at creating psychological space and his love of black and white cinema.