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Games People Play

Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre

(Seurapeli, Jenni Toivoniemi, Finland 2020, 117 min., Finnish and Swedish w/English Subtitles)

Frequently compared to The Big Chill, this film finds a group of friends getting together after a decade and discovering that their past is not what they thought it was. Mitzi (Emmi Parviainen) is an unwilling guest at her own surprise birthday party thrown at the island cottage she and her friends would frequent in their youth. Going through her own romantic break, she is confronted with new relationships within the group as well as surprising revelations about romantic relationships in the past. Fueled by alcohol and constant sunlight, there is no break in the tension as the group of eight re-orient themselves to their new situations and their old secrets.