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Reetta Aalto pushes a wannabe stand-up comedian Maria ( Elena Leeve) onto the stage. Trying to stand out among the jokes about mothers-in-law, she and her fellow ârookiesâ turn to personal details of their lives, learning that real comedy is actually no laughing matter. Cineuropa: Your screenwriter [Anna Ruohonen] did stand-up, but were you also trying to explore this scene on your own? Reetta Aalto: With producer Sari Lempiäinen, we are course mates from film school. It was her idea to commission this script from Anna. There weren t any films about stand-up in Finland, even though it s an up-and-coming trend. Unaware of all this, I happened to take a stand-up course led by ....