Lights In The Dusk details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Janne Hyytiainen, Maria Heiskanen, Maria Jarvenhelmi, Ilkka Koivula |
| Director: | Aki Kaurismaki |
| Genres: | Drama - Television, World Cinema |
| Studio: | FUSION MEDIA |
| Name | Discs | |
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Lights In The Dusk |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 27 Aug 2007 |
| Main languages: | Finnish |
| Subtitles: | English |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMThe third in Kaurismaki's 'loser trilogy' this black comedy stars Janne Hyytiainen.
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Spare and profound
By a customer from Glasgow, Scotland , 14 Sep 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
This film is an extension of the director's attempts in 2 previous movies in the trilogy (ie Drifting Clouds and The Man with No Name)to show us the 'lights in the dusk' of human banality and lonliness. The lead character is not someone that we can find easy to like or really feel much sympathy for. He is a rather pathetic emotional have-not. He gets into situations which to the audience are obvously not going to work out or are obdurate and obtuse. What is touching is the character's naivity about life and his eventual acceptance of life's banality and seeming pointlessness. I found that very pure and affecting. I think that is what is recognised by another couple of characters in the film who accept that banality in a more positive way. The human solidarity and understanding shown to the main character at the end by the 2 others and a dog was heartwarming and extremely profound.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)A loser among loser films
By PaoloC (55 reviews) from Norwich , 10 Dec 2012The least interesting of Kaurismaki's loser films; about half way through we realised that we had seen it before, and that, unlike his other films, it is bleak with a deeply unsatisfying central character.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Downbeat, downbeaten
By a customer from Northampton , 03 Feb 2009An interesting, if faintly depresssing film from Kaurismäki, with a fairly cold, emotionless, miserable protagonist! Most people are deadpan in his films, which occasionally can be funny, but not really in this one. The protagonist laughs once in the entire film, when he is in prison!
The story is slight, and is basically about ordinary people living pretty mundane lives. A bit of excitement comes into the main character's life, but he ends up much worse off than he was before.
The picture quality on the DVD is very good, and it looks remarkably sharp upscaled on a high-definition TV.
There's an interview with the director, but I couldn't really follow what he was talking about, even though he was speaking in English!- Was this review helpful to you?
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lights in the dusk
By a customer from London , 19 Jan 2009Ths was was of thoses films which you have to be in the right mood for. I had seen it already and enjoyed watching it again, it was a bit slow and predictable but well worth watching.- Was this review helpful to you?
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classic
By a customer from London , 19 Sep 2008many of the works by Ari Kaurismaki I consider as a work of genius in its striking, simple true, guidance to life and character.
I recommend this movie for its art ism, good taste.
This director reminds me of Dostoyevsky`s works, however is more intelligent and sad.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Utterly dreadful
By a customer from London , 25 May 2008Minimal dialogue, not a single sympathetic character, a protagonist that never manages to emerge from almost complete passivity. If this is a dark comedy, the joke is on the viewer.
This is apparently the last of the director's loser trilogy, and he has lost me for good.
Only redeeming feature is the beautiful photography.
Avoid like Finnish plague.- Was this review helpful to you?
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