Irina Björklund Movies

Photographer Anne Norda makes her feature directorial debut with this sexually charged drama concerning a pair of married artists who are forced to confront their unfulfilled desires after a sexually ambiguous nude model prompts a sexual and spiritual awakening. The toast of the art world due to her signature blood paintings, Mary Shaw (Irina Bjorklund) is experiencing the kind of fame that her husband David Stellar (Peter Franzen) could only hope for. While Mary's paintings are vivid and provocative, David's realistic nudes simply aren't hip enough to get him a gallery show. Stubbornly refusing his change his style, David continues work on his latest painting - a smoldering portrait of seductive blue-eyed blonde Julie Belle (Eliza Pryor Nagel. Her curiosity about her husband's latest subject piqued, Mary begins to develop a casual relationship with Julie that quickly blossoms into something more due to the model's free spirit and unguarded honesty. Meanwhile, as Mary's relationship with Julie grows increasingly intimate, David struggles to avoid temptation and keep his crumbling marriage intact. Just as Mary begins to question her carefully constructed existence, however, Julie's duplicitous mask of detachment comes off, plunging all three into a precarious state of emotional chaos and forcing them to consider what it truly means to be free. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A man in the middle of nowhere finds his past catching up with him in this independent thriller. Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain) is a businessman who is driving from Santa Barbara, CA, to his new home in a small town in Nevada. However, as Stanton makes his way through the desert, he loses his bearings, and before long, thanks to a few road closings, detours, out-of-date map listings, and faulty directions from an auto-club operator, he hasn't the foggiest notion of where he is. But when an angry man with a gun begins pursuing Stanton, it becomes evident that there's more to his story than just a few wrong turns. Also featuring Danny Trejo and Ashley Scott, Lost marked the directorial debut of screenwriter Darren Lemke. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Finnish filmmaker Lenka Hellstedt makes her directorial debut with the comedy drama Minä ja Morrison, based on a novel by Kata Kärkkäinen. Irina Björklund plays Milla, a young woman who becomes romantically involved with Aki (Samuli Edelmann). After spending the night together, Milla discovers that Aki is a widower and single father to Joonas (Roope Karisto). As their relationship progresses, Milla finds out some secrets about Aki's violent past involving drug dealing. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari (Mikko Nousiainen), a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina (Laura Malmivaara), something unexpected happens -- he falls in love. For the first time, Ari finds himself pursuing a long-term relationship, and he makes a genuine effort to remain faithful to her. But old habits die hard; Tiina introduces Ari to her circle of friends and temptation arises as he encounters Hanna-Riikka (Irina Bjorklund), a theology student, and Ilona (Matleena Kuusniemi), who is soon to be married. Despite Ari's feelings for Tiina, he begins having affairs with both Hanna-Riikka and Ilona, leading to an unpleasant revelation on the day of Ilona's nuptials. Featuring copious nudity and sex scenes, Levottomat was a major box-office success in its native Finland. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Penti is a poorly groomed newspaper reporter who gets abusive when drunk. On one such occasion, his fed-up wife commits him to a mental institution. It takes him a while to prove his sanity to the skeptical staff and win his release, but before he does, he encounters Tutteli, a mysterious and beautiful woman who claims that she was sent there by those who wanted to shut her up. Her story is that she knew too much about the illegal goings-on in her small town. Intrigued, Penti travels to the town the woman mentioned. When he bruits her name about, the responses he gets lead him to believe that there is something to her story. Indeed, the local corruption appears to be quite widespread. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi