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From its brilliant cinematography to its compassionate characters, Lights in the Dusk is another successful exercise in deadpan minimalist comedy from Aki Kaurismäki.
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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. Oct 16, 2007 | Full Review…
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.
J. R. Jones
It's a deceptively satisfying, almost magical achievement, like being stranded in a desert yet never going thirsty. Sep 21, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a deceptively satisfying, almost magical achievement, like being stranded in a desert yet never going thirsty.
Wesley Morris
Kaurismäki is self-consciously tapping into the raw pathos of an earlier time in cinema (the pain and loss that often accompanied Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp, for example). The idea works, though it is finally wearing. Aug 3, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4
Kaurismäki is self-consciously tapping into the raw pathos of an earlier time in cinema (the pain and loss that often accompanied Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp, for example). The idea works, though it is finally wearing.
Tom Keogh
The director's existential sarcasm is muted here. Jul 23, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The director's existential sarcasm is muted here.
Bill Stamets
The distance Kaurismki creates belies his deeply humanistic streak. He engages characters in the direst of situations not to see them suffer but to search for hope. Jul 12, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The distance Kaurismki creates belies his deeply humanistic streak. He engages characters in the direst of situations not to see them suffer but to search for hope.
Kevin Crust
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. Jun 16, 2007 | Rating: B-
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.
Scott Tobias
Though it's the weakest of the three panels that form Kaurismaki's trilogy, which began with Drifting Clouds in 1996, it's still worth seeing. Jun 3, 2011 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Though it's the weakest of the three panels that form Kaurismaki's trilogy, which began with Drifting Clouds in 1996, it's still worth seeing.
Emanuel Levy
Un relato crudo, probablemente desconcertante y extrañamente tragicómico, sólo para seguidores incondicionales del director, que repite su estilo sin sorpresas. Jan 22, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Un relato crudo, probablemente desconcertante y extrañamente tragicómico, sólo para seguidores incondicionales del director, que repite su estilo sin sorpresas.
Enrique Buchichio
A wholly satisfying comic-existential bit of fluff. Sep 12, 2007 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
A wholly satisfying comic-existential bit of fluff.
Tim Brayton
It's exactly the picture he wanted to make; that's for sure. But in this case that's not quite enough. Sep 7, 2007 | Rating: B-
It's exactly the picture he wanted to make; that's for sure. But in this case that's not quite enough.
Shawn Levy
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. Aug 25, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Marjorie Baumgarten
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. Aug 2, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
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.
Sean Axmaker
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