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Reetta Aalto • Director of Laughing Matters


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 “rookies” 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 ....

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