Finnish filmmakers, Tuevo Tulio is a fascinating figure whose career stretched from the early sound era 
to 1973 with all the ups and downs you'd expect from that span of time. Delivering another wild curve ball for American audiences, Deaf Crocodile collected restorations of three of his key films on Blu-ray in a triple-disc set, 3 x Tuevo Tulio, and the ride is just as wild as you'd expect with content that crazier and more envelope-pushing than anything you'd see coming out of major studios. 
back to the city where she became a ruined woman of the streets. From there she becomes entangled with a young artist, 
Henrik (Tuomi), who wants her to model in tableaux of erotic religious persecution.
Swedish-language version of the film as Kärlekens kors and the 2015 short doc "A French Discovery (Nuorena Nukkunut)" (6m35s) about the discovery and restoration of a surviving portion of the 1937 
film Fall Asleep When Young, thought lost in a fire at the end of the '50s. You also get that entire restored surviving reel of the film (21m42s), obviously still in very battered shape but nice to have for posterity.
ultra-stylized soapers by the likes of Douglas Sirk or his more modern disciples like Todd Haynes and Pedro Almodóvar will have a blast with this 
one, and it's best to watch with at least one other person so you can figure out later where Tulio and company are really coming from here-- especially that ending. Again the restoration here is excellent, and you might actually want to start out the set with this one since it's guaranteed you'll be hooked in from that point. Eloise Ross provides an insightful audio commentary about the film's use of traditional melodrama and "women's pictures" to completely upend your viewing experience, pointing out plenty of sly points of interest along the way. The visual essay "They Talk of Love: Tuevo Tulio's Two Visions of Pushkin" (21m30s) by Ryan Verrill and Will Dodson covers the publication of the author's "The Stationmaster" and its interpretation in two of Tulio's films (more on that below), as well as how the Russian themes are transposed into another country's cinematic language here. Another partially surviving Tulio film, his 1936 debut Struggle for the House of Hekkila, is represented here with an 8m10s fragment demonstrating his skill with pastoral melodrama already. Finally the 1946 educational short Shelters for Newborns (8m29s) by Holger Harrivirta shows how the children of mothers afflicted during a major tuberculosis outbreak were being cared for in a special building safe from bacterial infection. 
1953. However, 
nothing could have prepared anyone for what he had in store with his final film, 1973's long-gestating Sensuela, a riot of shockingly bold Technicolor on the third Blu-ray. A loose riff on Cross of Love, the story begins among the Sámi population in Finland where Laila (Mardi), daughter of one of the primary reindeer herders, saves an injured German pilot, Hans (Åkerman), from a disastrous plane crash. He ends up seducing her and, much to her father's disappointment, spirits her away via her first plane trip to Helsinki. There her eyes are opened to her beau's true nature at a swinging sex party, which opens the door to a new relationship with photographer Pekka (Saario) complete with nudie modeling, extended sauna sessions, and a new form of personal liberation.
cautionary note about the frequent nudity, which is mostly of the casual nudie-cutie variety but does veer into some surprisingly up-close territory in a few shots. That aspect was likely done in the final stretch of making the film, which stretched on for 
years as the climate for what was permissible on movie screens was changing at light speed. The film's 18-only rating in Finland (the first domestic film to be restricted as such) played a large role in its disastrous and very marginal theatrical release, with Tulio himself barring its distribution in any form after that for the rest of his life. Luckily times have caught up, and the scorching restoration on display here is a real wonder to behold. Heidi Honeycutt delivers a new audio commentary here with an infectious enthusiasm for the film, diving headfirst into its cavalcade of weirdness, culture clashes, and sexual dynamics that make it unlike anything else out there. A visual essay by Reinert Kiil (20m48s) focuses on Sámi culture and the impact of World War II on Finland at large, followed by the 1947 educational short I Would Like to Be a Queen (12m47s) in which a young woman indulges way too much at a party and ends up in an unexpected place the next morning with a stern lecture in store. As usual the set comes as a limited edition with an illustrated 60-page book featuring the essays "Fairytale in the Shadows" on Cross of Love and the director's career in general by Eloise Ross, Walter Chaw gushing with wild abandon about Restless Blood, "Corruption of a Pure Heart" on Sensuela and comparisons to The White Reindeer by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and the more personal "Telvio Tulio: The Melodrama Machine" by Venla Mäkelä, plus restoration notes.