It's a handsome production, and a pleasure to watch.
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06/13/07
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
If 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
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 CriticKaurismäki has given us no special reason to revisit his coy, claustrophobic universe.
06/13/07
Strangely moving--a meditation on loneliness and ennui in a heartless, modern, industrial society.
06/13/07
Kaurismäki's underdog tragicomedy is an elegant piece of modern urban noir.
06/13/07
dumbfounding the audience once again, mixing the metaphysical with the meanderingly amusing.
06/12/07
Kaurismaki once again hints at oceans of emotion underneath the minimalist surface.
06/03/07
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
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
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
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
A rare misstep for director Kaurismaki.
09/23/06
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
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.
09/23/06
An amiable but very undercooked noirish fable about a security guard done wrong by a femme fatale.
05/23/06
Kaurismaki's Finnish minimalism fails to enliven this down- and off-beat tale.
05/22/06
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