Sweet Disaster

Plays 5/10 at 4:30 p.m. and 5/12 at 1:45 p.m. as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] After an imaginative, warm-hearted, emotionally distraught, 40-year-old, German-Finnish painting therapist (Friederike Kempter), who works with mentally challenged children at a daycare along with its friendly bus driver (Lasse Myhr), discovers she is pregnant with a high-risk pregnancy and tells her pilot captain boyfriend (Florian Lukas) about the news in Laura Lehmus' colorful, wacky, original, heartfelt, bittersweet, multilayered, 90-minute, 2021 romantic comedy, she finds herself desperate to get the expectant father back when he returns to his former flight attendant girlfriend (Diana Ebert) he dated for eight years and then she befriends her tech savvy teenage neighbor (Lena Urzendowsky) whose mother is reluctant to allow her to go to school for a year in Canada.
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