Fallen Leaves (2023)
(Kuolleet lehdet)
Country: FIN/GER
Technical: col 81m
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Martti Suosalo
Synopsis:
As war rages in the Ukraine, and they drift from one soulless employment to the next, Ansa and Holappa sink into despair. Will they finally meet? And will Holappa renounce his attachment to booze?
Review:
As usual in the director's oeuvre, there is little to recognise of the famed Finnish social safety net, and the same is true of the cast: you get scrubbed down if you appear in a Kaurismäki film. This is one of his slightest yet, but is not without charm in its jaundiced dialogue and deadpan lyricism. A key location is the arthouse cinema, and movie references abound, concluding with a Modern Times finish. Prévert's Feuilles Mortes is also there, sung in Finnish of course; and though that was a song about lost love, it finds its echo in the mise en scène and pervading air of fatalism.
(Kuolleet lehdet)
Country: FIN/GER
Technical: col 81m
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Martti Suosalo
Synopsis:
As war rages in the Ukraine, and they drift from one soulless employment to the next, Ansa and Holappa sink into despair. Will they finally meet? And will Holappa renounce his attachment to booze?
Review:
As usual in the director's oeuvre, there is little to recognise of the famed Finnish social safety net, and the same is true of the cast: you get scrubbed down if you appear in a Kaurismäki film. This is one of his slightest yet, but is not without charm in its jaundiced dialogue and deadpan lyricism. A key location is the arthouse cinema, and movie references abound, concluding with a Modern Times finish. Prévert's Feuilles Mortes is also there, sung in Finnish of course; and though that was a song about lost love, it finds its echo in the mise en scène and pervading air of fatalism.
(Kuolleet lehdet)
Country: FIN/GER
Technical: col 81m
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Martti Suosalo
Synopsis:
As war rages in the Ukraine, and they drift from one soulless employment to the next, Ansa and Holappa sink into despair. Will they finally meet? And will Holappa renounce his attachment to booze?
Review:
As usual in the director's oeuvre, there is little to recognise of the famed Finnish social safety net, and the same is true of the cast: you get scrubbed down if you appear in a Kaurismäki film. This is one of his slightest yet, but is not without charm in its jaundiced dialogue and deadpan lyricism. A key location is the arthouse cinema, and movie references abound, concluding with a Modern Times finish. Prévert's Feuilles Mortes is also there, sung in Finnish of course; and though that was a song about lost love, it finds its echo in the mise en scène and pervading air of fatalism.