(Not, however, in Laaksonen’s home country, where public sentiment regarding gays was, at the time, as cold as the weather.) Laaksonen, who died in 1991, is known for sexually charged drawings of leather-clad, impossibly handsome men with impossibly high buttocks - images reproduced in comics and magazines that became beloved throughout the gay communities of the world. “Tom of Finland” is the dramatization of his real-life story. One of the men, as we learn, is Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang), a wide-eyed, high-cheekboned Finnish officer who doesn’t quite fit in. Just as you begin to wonder whether you’re watching a bunny-based “Waiting for Godot,” we are transported to Finland, on the front lines of World War II. ![]() ![]() We don’t know who they (or the rabbit) are, or what they are waiting for. ![]() “Tom of Finland” opens on a great expanse of a room, as two men sit on a bench, discussing a rabbit.
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