A separated former vicar arrives in a remote Finnish one-horse town with his young son and a ton of undisclosed baggage. They do not find it easy to settle in the closed community: the father is haunted by rumours about his past misdeeds and the son is systematically bullied at school. Thus it continues, until the message comes through that the only way out is to be honest at any cost.
This is a dyed-in-the-wool tenet of Finnish identity, much as making films that in no way advance the cause of the tourist industry is characteristic of their cinematic production. So, cheery it is not, but Time Out (better translated literally as 'Little Big Lies') does have a rewarding payoff, simply by remaining rooted in the reality of how people work.
6/10
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