Kuolleet Lehdet (2023)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 81 minuten
Alternative title: Fallen Leaves
Country:
Finland / Germany
Directed by: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen and Alina Tomnikov
IMDb score:
7,3 (36.107)
Releasedate: 14 September 2023
Kuolleet Lehdet plot
Ansa works in a supermarket after which she takes a job as a waste sorter. Holappa is a sandblaster who is drinking. Both are lonely and cross paths one night in Helsinki. Despite the setbacks and misunderstandings, they try to build a relationship.
Actors and actresses
Ansa
Holappa
Huotari
Liisa
Tonja, Nurse
Raunio
Manager of the Metal Workshop
Man in the Travel Home
Internet Cafe Owner
Matron
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
I still have some way to go in Kaurismäki's oeuvre, but I think this one is in the same vein as his other films. That means a idiosyncratic approach to gloom seasoned with a touch of humor and cheer. A feeling of resignation also from a very old-fashioned Helsinki. As if you are in the 80s with a dated apartment, a retro radio and evening entertainment with the fancy karaoke bar. Then the mobile pops up, but one doesn't get any further than the nostalgic Nokia 3310.
Ansa and Holappa's life is one with few prospects with their stultifying jobs with limited protection rights. They bump into each other. Curious looks meet, but don't expect splashes and sparks. It won't be wonderfully romantic either. The outing to the cinema is a fun one with The Dead Don't Die (Film, 2019) and the beautiful film posters on the wall.
The dialogues are sparse. There are hardly any conversations. The characters barely speak more than a sentence at a time. As if their existence has affected their language sensitivity. They resign themselves to their fate and continue with their measly lives. Only love can give existence some extra nourishment, but it never becomes cheerful. The awkward social contacts sometimes bring light satire and make the whole thing more light-hearted.
Oh yes, to conclude: what a great song in the karaoke bar by those 2 girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=XgzKpRbvmww from Maustetytöt.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, don't ask why. Ansi [Alma Pöysti] is a single woman who bounces from job to job, Holappa [Jussi Vatanen] is a drunk who cannot hold down a job. Reports about the war in Ukraine can be heard on the radio and in a karaoke bar Raunio [Martti Suosalo] falsely sings a Finnish tearjerker. Ansa and Holappa start dating, but nothing interesting really happens. The lack of emotion gives it a deeper meaning according to Kaurismäki fans, but it just made me yawn. Apparently it was meant to be comical, but only the parody of the opening scene from Plan 9 From Outer Space managed to evoke a vague, momentary smile from me. The film Ansi and Holappa visit is The Dead Don't Die by Jim Jarmusch.
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
I know director Kaurismäki's earlier films Tulitikkutehtaan Tyttö (The Match Factory Girl) and Toivon Tuolla Puolen (The Other Side of Hope) and I really liked those films, but this latest one by Kaurismäki didn't do much for me. It may just be me, but the film felt like an uninspired repetitive exercise: once again we see lonely people in a literally cold environment, who cannot say anything even in a friendship or on a first date, where the depressing atmosphere is compensated with dry humor as the characters compensate for their depression with too much alcohol. And once again Kaurismäki shows the human in all its detachment – in this film literally the romance that is longed for despite all failure – which I had described in the previous film as “a vodka that warms the heart on a cold, lonely night”. But it is no longer new or special.
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