Finnish director Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture (Tytöt tytöt tytöt, 2022), centres on three young women on the cusp of adulthood. Best friends Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen) encounter different experiences in this moment of their lives. While Rönkkö is obsessed with discovering sexual pleasure, Mimmi experiences the difficulties of first love when she meets figure skater Emma (Linnea Leino), who begins to question her priorities.
Girl Picture has an aura that defies the expectations that come with the coming-of-age story, partly because it is structured across three Fridays. It omits a significant amount of time in the lives of its characters, revealing how deceptive and manipulative our perception of time is. Indeed, Girl Picture is structured as the characters might remember this time in their lives – as a series of moments.