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Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki] ⓘ; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989).
Nov 30, 2023 · The local music scene is a vital part of the Kaurismäki ecosphere, and while the majority of his films contain rowdy live music performances (often by obscure, ageing Finnish bar bands in powder blue tuxedos), he also made three (very funny) features and numerous shorts dedicated to the apocryphal Russian folk-rock outfit, The Leningrad Cowboys.
Nov 27, 2023 · The best place to start – Drifting Clouds. With at least half a dozen candidates for the top spot – some might even say a dozen – this is a close-run thing, but the sublime Drifting Clouds (1996) is in many ways the perfect Aki Kaurismäki film. Long-term regulars Kati Outinen and Kari Väänänen star as a couple who are made redundant ...
Aki Kaurismäki. Producer: Le Havre. Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth ...
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Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957, in Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, and producer. Kaurismäki had his first encounter with film at Orimattilan Kino, the cinema in Orimattila, in the early 1960s. “I don’t remember much of the film except that Arab-looking guys were chasing Tarzan,” Kaurismäki has reminisced about ...
Jul 9, 2009 · Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) unexpectedly became Kaurismäki’s biggest hit yet – and led to a series of films about this fictitious polka/rock-and-roll band from the Laplands (played by actual Finnish rock band, The Sleepy Sleepers). Leningrad Cowboys sport pointy-toed shoes and outrageous pompadour hairdos, performing spirited but hilariously atrocious covers of American rock songs ...
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Aug 13, 2021 · The Man Without A Past (2003) is perhaps Kaurismäki’s most definitive work to date. The story follows an unnamed man who falls asleep on a train. Arriving in Helsinki the man is brutally beaten by muggers. Waking up in a hospital with horrific injuries and amnesia he has to start his life completely from scratch without shelter, or friends.
