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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
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.
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.
Kaurismäki's underdog tragicomedy is an elegant piece of modern urban noir.
The downbeat tone of Lights in the Dusk just escapes offense and self-parody due to Kaurismäki’s careful, subtle craftsmanship.
dumbfounding the audience once again, mixing the metaphysical with the meanderingly amusing.
Ignore accusations that this is sluggish and inconsequential. This is textbook Kaurismäki, from its drolly laconic style to its delicious cinematic nostalgia.
Strangely moving--a meditation on loneliness and ennui in a heartless, modern, industrial society.
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.
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.
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.
Kaurismaki once again hints at oceans of emotion underneath the minimalist surface.
It's a handsome production, and a pleasure to watch.
The distance Kaurismäki creates belies his deeply humanistic streak. He engages characters in the direst of situations not to see them suffer but to search for hope.
There's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke.
Top CriticKaurismäki’s spare style and economical storytelling are well-suited to this particular story about loneliness, as the director never muddies the frame with sentimental dross or lugubrious inclinations.
You want to press pause, and just sit and take it in: The colors, the humor, the light, the surfaces; the simple pleasure of watching a master at work.
If you're a fan of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's deadpan comedy world, then his latest piece of controlled, semi-stylised whimsy will be right up your alley.
Another in a series of Kaurismaki's deeply touching portraits of ordinary people, full of gentle and mournfully poetic subtle narrative rhythms.
Lights In The Dusk plays out in the expected Kaurismäki style, with flavorful musical interludes, great affection for the city's outcasts, and lots of bleakness chased by the faintest sliver of hope.
Aki Kaurismaki's gloomy take on film noir... is pure Kaurismaki, done in the director's inimitable deadpan and surreally dispassionate style and grim sensibility.
July 03, 2007:
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