Lights in the Dusk

Lights in the Dusk

2006 · 78 min · FI · NR · 6.6 (104 votes)
Dir. Aki Kaurismäki · Starring Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Maria Heiskanen, Ilkka Koivula, Sergei Doudko, Andrei Gennadiev · Music Melrose
DramaCrime

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.

VIBE

A stark, melancholic portrait of profound loneliness. This film feels like a quiet, bleak Helsinki night, punctuated by moments of desperate, misguided hope. It's a study in quiet despair and the crushing weight of isolation.

melancholicbleaklonelydespairingstarkslow-burnAki Kaurismäkideadpanminimalistarthouseisolationdesiremiscommunicationlonelinessfalse hope
prisonhelsinkifinlandfriendshiplove of one's lifeunsociabilitydespairnight watchmanloserteacherwrongful arrest
MORE LIKE THIS — multi-vector + why, diversified