A rare misstep for director Kaurismaki.
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09/23/06
Lights In The Dusk (2007)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:25
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: From its brilliant cinematography to its compassionate characters, Lights in the Dusk is another successful exercise in deadpan minimalist comedy from Aki Kaurismäki.
Theatrical Release:Jun 13, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: This bleak feature from Finland concerns Koiskinen, a night watchman in Helsinki. With no social life, this solitary figure becomes instantly smitten when a stunning blonde agrees to go a date with... [More]
Starring: Janne Hyytiainen, Maria Heiskanen, Maria Jarvenhelmi, Ilkka Koivula
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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Reviews for Lights In The Dusk
So stylized and slow-moving (even at a spare 75 minutes) that you may have trouble adapting to its hypnotic rhythms -- but if you can, there are sumptuous visual rewards to be found, plus the faintest emotional uptick right at the end.
06/14/07
Top CriticThere is an admirable rigor here and even a brief touch of sunshine, but almost none of the humor that marks [Kaurismaki's] best work.
07/15/07
Kaurismäki's underdog tragicomedy is an elegant piece of modern urban noir.
06/13/07
The downbeat tone of Lights in the Dusk just escapes offense and self-parody due to Kaurismäki’s careful, subtle craftsmanship.
07/11/07
The director's existential sarcasm is muted here.
07/23/07
So dry it's parched, this study of a passive loser whose life just keeps getting worse is basically a series of noir cliches clothed in arthouse anomie.
07/13/07
dumbfounding the audience once again, mixing the metaphysical with the meanderingly amusing.
06/12/07
As a dry comedy or a social allegory, Lights in the Dusk is anemic.
06/16/07
Ignore accusations that this is sluggish and inconsequential. This is textbook Kaurismäki, from its drolly laconic style to its delicious cinematic nostalgia.
04/06/07
Lights in the Dusk suggests what it might be like to stare at Bill Murray in a coma for 75 minutes.
02/06/07
Un relato crudo, probablemente desconcertante y extrañamente tragicómico, sólo para seguidores incondicionales del director, que repite su estilo sin sorpresas.
01/22/08
Strangely moving--a meditation on loneliness and ennui in a heartless, modern, industrial society.
06/13/07
Kaurismäki’s delightfully delicate cautionary fable charts his unassuming hero’s descent into an unforeseen nightmare of deceit and violence with a characteristically low-key blend of humane compassion and deadpan mordant humour.
10/30/06
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.
10/16/07
A noir on Ativan, Lights in the Dusk displays another of Kaurismäki’s best traits: his deep sympathy for the world’s most helpless (and hapless) souls.
09/23/06
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10/18/07
It all sounds brutally miserable, but a spry comic flicker, and Koistinen's dim but undying hope keep things surprisingly light, while brilliantly efficient storytelling gives the human tale almost all of the short 77 minutes to unfurl.
04/10/07
Kaurismaki once again hints at oceans of emotion underneath the minimalist surface.
06/03/07
It's a handsome production, and a pleasure to watch.
06/13/07
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