Kuosmanen’s wintry sophomore feature will satisfy patient viewers looking for a rewarding road trip (on tracks) as a disheartened Finnish woman acquaints with a feisty Russian man whilst travelling on a train from Moscow to Murmansk.
Kuosmanen’s debut feature, shot in poetic black-and-white, is a nuanced romance film masquerading as a boxing movie.
The second film of Kaurismäki’s ‘Finland’ trilogy could be one of his most mature works, achieving a fine balance between the driest of humour and the most encompassing of compassion.
Continue reading →This minor work is also the weakest film in Kaurismaki’s “Finland” trilogy, taking itself more seriously than it ought to be.
A compassionate if often amusing film centering on a couple facing unemployment that sees Kaurismäki in his own element.
Takes a while to set off, but when it does, the film is Kaurismäki at his deadpan comedic best, with a touch of empathy for its characters.
Continue reading →A gang of shades-wearing weirdos attempt to create meaning out of a meaningless existence in this uneven absurdist work of comic nihilism.
Eternality Tan 