Lights in the Dusk
Drama
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2006
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Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
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Details
Runtime:
78 min
Release date:
3 Feb 2006
Country:
FI, FR, DE, IT, SE
Languages:
Finnish, Russian
Budget:
$1,380,000
Revenue:
$1,615,018
Awards:
3 wins & 7 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Kaurismaki creates some beautiful frames, carefully composing his affectless characters against the rooms' colors, but there's something wrong with your story when people are upstaged by the decor.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
16 Oct 2007
fresh:
It's a deceptively satisfying, almost magical achievement, like being stranded in a desert yet never going thirsty.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
21 Sep 2007
rotten:
Kaurismaki is self-consciously tapping into the raw pathos of an earlier time in cinema (the pain and loss that often accompanied Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp, for example). The idea works, though it is finally wearing.
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
3 Aug 2007
rotten:
The director's existential sarcasm is muted here.
– Bill Stamets,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Jul 2007
fresh:
The distance Kaurismki creates belies his deeply humanistic streak. He engages characters in the direst of situations not to see them suffer but to search for hope.
– Kevin Crust,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jul 2007