In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
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★★★★★
I saw this film as part of the London Film Festival and would recommend it simply on the basis that it held my interest from start to finish after a very long day at work. The only other movies I saw which managed this feat were Taxidermia and Big Bang Love, b...
★★★★★
When you find a formula that works, you often stick to it even to the point of spinning your wheels until you become something of either an establishment or a cliché. Director Aki Kaurismaki may do well to bare this in mind before embarking on his next languid...
★★★★★
I saw this film at the Toronto International Film Festival. This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "Helsinki Trilogy" (the others are Drifting Clouds (1996) and The Man Without a Past (2002)) While I haven't seen the first, this film shares many thematic and f...
★★★★★
Night watchman Koiskinen lives an alienated life. Ridiculed and shunned by his workmates, regarded as incompetent by his employers, he lives alone, drinks alone, and only manages to talk in any decent way with the woman who sell hot dogs in the fast food stand...
★★★★★
Compared to normal Hollywood movies I still enjoy Kaurismäki's films, but this is definitely not one of his best ones.
One of the biggest problems of this film is the director's attitude towards his main character. Koistinen's situation is getting worse with...
