Review

This documentary on the life and art of Tom of Finland explores the evolution of the gay artist's work from his crude, but sexy drawing of German soldiers during Finland's occupation by Nazi forces during WWII, to him becoming one of the most popular illustrators of gay erotic images; reaching a point in his craft that he has become an icon in the realm of gay male erotica. Tom himself is interviewed, shortly before his death in 1991 at the age of 71. He reminisces about his unusual childhood obsessions and his interest in erotic-romantic images that are filled with uniforms of varying types, leather and chains, and muscle-bound, well-endowed men.
-Raymond Murray

(English and Finnish with English subtitles)