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Lights in the Dusk
Crime, Drama - 2006
Lights in the Dusk
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Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds.
Director:
,
Aki Kaurismäki
Cast:
,
Kati Outinen
,
Janne Hyytiäinen
,
Maria Heiskanen
,
Maria Järvenhelmi
,
Ilkka Koivula
,
Vesa Häkli
,
Artūras Pozdniakovas

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Details

Rated:
Not Rated
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

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
rotten:
The director's existential sarcasm is muted here.
– Bill Stamets,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Jul 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
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 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
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