Tag: Janne Hyytiäinen

Fallen Leaves

Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) (2023)

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Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) at the BFI London Film Festival 2023 Some 35 years ago, Finnish writer/director Aki Kaurismäki made the so-called underdog (or workers’) trilogy. Though otherwise unrelated to each other, his Shadows In Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988) and The Match Factory Girl (1990) all featured downtrodden protagonists struggling to find solidarity, love or revenge…

Dusk

Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) (2006)

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Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) first published by Film4 Synopsis: In the final part of Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurismäki’s loser trilogy, a Helsinki night watchman is brought low by a treacherous dame and a venal society. Review: Lights In The Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) packs in a rock ‘n’ roll hero, a bar fight, gangsters, a femme fatale, a…