Compared frequently in the American press to the Coen Brothers comedy Fargo (given its similar blend of brutal crime and comedy-of-errors shenanigans), the Scandinavian picture Baba's Cars opens on the lingering dissatisfaction that ditzy blonde Anso... more
Compared frequently in the American press to the Coen Brothers comedy Fargo (given its similar blend of brutal crime and comedy-of-errors shenanigans), the Scandinavian picture Baba's Cars opens on the lingering dissatisfaction that ditzy blonde Anso (Laura Malmivaara) projects toward her beau, Jojo (Andreas Wilson). A complete layabout, he sits around all day and never accomplishes anything of significance aside from ice fishing. Anso grows desperate for Jojo to get a job, provided that it doesn't mean collecting a paycheck from her estranged dad, the slickster used-car-salesman (and thief) of the title (Hassan Brijany). The bough threatens to break beneath them when Jojo makes the foolhardy decision to blow his savings on a beaten-up Cadillac, which sends Anso through the roof; to compensate for his newfound pennilessness, he covertly accepts a job working as a gofer for Baba, sans Anso's knowledge. Jojo's first assignment: to snatch an automobile from Eleena, whose boyfriend Ivan (Gyorgi Staykov) , a Russian drug czar, actually owns the vehicle. Without Jojo or Baba's knowledge, Ivan has stuffed a fortune in hard cash under one of the seats. When he discovers that his car is now MIA, he sends three idiotic henchmen - all Finns - out to retrieve it, little realizing that Baba just resold the vehicle to a dippy, garrulous Norwegian (Per Christian Ellefsen) on his way across the border with it at that very moment. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide less
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