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.
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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
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
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.
08/02/07
Kaurismäki’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.
08/25/07
Kaurismäki's underdog tragicomedy is an elegant piece of modern urban noir.
06/13/07
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.
04/07/07
A wholly satisfying comic-existential bit of fluff.
09/12/07
Un relato crudo, probablemente desconcertante y extrañamente tragicómico, sólo para seguidores incondicionales del director, que repite su estilo sin sorpresas.
01/22/08
dumbfounding the audience once again, mixing the metaphysical with the meanderingly amusing.
06/12/07
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.
07/12/07
Top CriticKaurismaki once again hints at oceans of emotion underneath the minimalist surface.
06/03/07
As a dry comedy or a social allegory, Lights in the Dusk is anemic.
06/16/07
An amiable but very undercooked noirish fable about a security guard done wrong by a femme fatale.
05/23/06
Top CriticYou 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.
09/23/06
It's a handsome production, and a pleasure to watch.
06/13/07
Lights in the Dusk suggests what it might be like to stare at Bill Murray in a coma for 75 minutes.
02/06/07
Stripped of much of the director's trademark deadpan humor and saddled with such an extremely passive protagonist, getting through the drama becomes an exercise in patience.
06/15/07
A mood of cosmic desolation seeps like late autumn sunlight filtered through clouds in Aki Kaurismaki's Lights in the Dusk.
06/13/07
Top CriticKaurismaki's Finnish minimalism fails to enliven this down- and off-beat tale.
05/22/06
Top CriticKaurismaki 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
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