Santra and the Talking Trees
Maiia Tervo • Finlande • 2013 • 27 minutes • Couleur
Résumé anglais
"Cry after being too happy, fart after laughing too long !"
Santra will occasionally warble the thousand-year-old Marjatta’s song, recorded by Finnish folklorist Lönnrot in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. Sometimes she will sing about the rebellious pussy that went crazy and left off to St. Petersburg. There are songs for potatoes, incantations for bathing in the sauna, spells for healing wounds. Santra has a good memory because she eats berries and knits complicated mittens, ...
