Finnish director Dome Karukoski is ready to take things slow with “Hippo Love.”
After “Tolkien” – a 2019 biopic about the early life of the “Lord of the Rings” author – “Tom of Finland,” series “The Beast Must Die” with Jared Harris, and first Finnish Netflix Original “Little Siberia,” Karukoski’s next film is a simple love story.
“One of the reasons I felt so strongly about the book [by Emmi-Liia Sjöholmin] was because it was so simple. It’s just two people talking – and falling in love,” Karukoski tells Variety in Helsinki.
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