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.
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10/16/07
Lights In The Dusk (2007)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:6
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.5/10
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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Top CriticIt's a deceptively satisfying, almost magical achievement, like being stranded in a desert yet never going thirsty.
09/21/07
Top CriticThe director's existential sarcasm is muted here.
07/23/07
Top CriticThe 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 CriticSo 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's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke.
06/13/07
Top CriticIf you're new to Kaurismaki, the film will make you a fan. If you've seen everything else he's ever done, the comedy will confirm your commitment.
06/13/07
Top CriticA mood of cosmic desolation seeps like late autumn sunlight filtered through clouds in Aki Kaurismaki's Lights in the Dusk.
06/13/07
Top CriticKaurismäki has given us no special reason to revisit his coy, claustrophobic universe.
06/13/07
Top CriticA rare misstep for director Kaurismaki.
09/23/06
Top CriticAn amiable but very undercooked noirish fable about a security guard done wrong by a femme fatale.
05/23/06
Top CriticKaurismaki's Finnish minimalism fails to enliven this down- and off-beat tale.
05/22/06
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