Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki crafts sparse, deadpan films about life's outsiders, as seen in works such as "Le Havre" and "The Man Without a Past". I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Ariel when our newly unemployed protagonist, handed a convertible and precious little else by a despairing colleague, simply points the car south and drives. No grand speech, no swelling music. Just a man and a road and the vague hope that Helsinki might
Rating: 2.0★
I must be missing the memo. Fallen Leaves has been hailed all over the place as some sort of triumphant return to form, a festival darling showered with praise, and I sat there watching it wondering what on earth everyone else was seeing that I wasn't. Strip away
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Match Factory Girl (1990)
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