Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with FALLEN LEAVES, a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismäki’s typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema’s living legends. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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“Kaurismaki somehow suffuses every frame with feeling, even if his storytelling is so pared back it is almost unfeeling. It’s the opposite of melodrama, whatever that is.” – The Spectator
“The creator is a sly skeptic, a prankster with a penchant for old-school R&B and downtrodden losers, whose heart retains a sliver of compassion for humanity as they bumble about his brutalist sets searching for meaning or ignoring it entirely.” – Austin Chronicle
“…a weird combination of Edward Hopper tableaux and Robert Bresson, with a wry humor underneath all that.” – FilmWeek
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