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Fallen Leaves
Why this pick
Kaurismäki’s same deadpan Helsinki minimalism turns lonely working lives into a tender, wryly funny romance, with spare dialogue, humane marginal characters and a quietly hopeful pulse.
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MOVIE2002 1h 37m FIN
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Its economically precarious couple face setbacks with the same poker-faced resilience and unfussy compassion, rendered in Kaurismäki’s stylised colours, laconic humour and sincere belief in small solidarities.
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The Other Side of Hope
Why this pick
A restrained Helsinki tale of displacement and unexpected aid, sharing the original’s formal deadpan comedy, carefully composed nocturnal cityscape and faith that strangers can become a community.
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Shadows in Paradise
Why this pick
This humble romance between working-class Helsinki outsiders has the same concise storytelling, melancholy rock-and-roll cool and deep affection for people navigating life with very little.
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Le Havre
Why this pick
Kaurismäki carries his humane, fairytale-like realism to a French port town: a modest man joins a quiet network of care, told through dry jokes, vivid tableaux and gentle optimism.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in Kaisaniemi park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is severely injured in the head, losing consciousness. He awakes and wanders back to the train station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory. He starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Markku Peltola
M
Kati Outinen
Irma
Elina Salo
Dock Clerk
Pertti Sveholm
Police Detective
Aino Seppo
Ex-wife
Antti Reini
Electrician
Panu Vauhkonen
Mugger
Eeva-Liisa Haimelin
Nurse