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| Aki
Kaurismäki |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer / Editor |
| 1957 - |
| Born April 4,
Orimattila, Finland |
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Production Countries: Finland, Sweden |
| Key Genres:
Comedy, Road Movie, Comedy Drama |
| Key
Collaborators: Timo
Salminen (Cinematographer), Kati Outinen (Leading Player), Esko Nikkari
(Character Player), Sakari Kuosmanen
(Leading Character Player), Matti Pellonpaa (Leading Player),
Elina Salo (Leading Player), Outi Maenpaa (Character Player), Markku
Peltola (Leading Player), Raija Talvio (Editor),
Jukka Salmi (Production Designer) |
| Highly
Recommended: The
Man Without a Past (2002) |
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Recommended:
Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel
(1988), The Match Factory Girl (1990), Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
(1994), Drifting Clouds (1996), Juha (1999) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ]
[
Film Reference ]
[ Strictly
Film School ] [ The
Kaurismäki Web Site ] [ A
Kaurismäki Homepage ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Another Kaurismäki Website ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
The
Man Without a Past (2002) |
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"Kaurismäki's
ironic sense of humour lends his best work a wacky, off-the-wall
quality. Forming a production company in 1981 with brother Mika
(who has also directed several films), he quickly made a name
for himself with witty, irreverent, almost comic-strip-style
adventures, comedies and melodramas, plus one or two revisionist
versions of famous dramas (Crime and Punishment,
Hamlet Goes Business), which paid a little, if not much more
attention to the story." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1999) |
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"The films of
maverick Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki are mostly about
taciturn losers in soulless jobs in bleak surroundings. However,
their grimness is enlivened by his dry humour...Kaurismäki's
philosophy is summed up in a line from Drifting Clouds:
"Life is short and miserable. Be as merry as you can." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"He
worked as an artist, dishwasher, builder, postman and machinist
before collaborating with his elder brother, film-maker Mika
Kaurismäki; as a team, they became key figures in the
development of Finnish cinema...His films are characterized by
their deadpan humour, melancholy feel and sympathetic portrayals
of outsiders." -
(Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006) |
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""I
have two methods. If I have a screenplay, I follow it. If I
don't, I improvise. Nobody else improvises - not the cameraman
or the actors. Just me." - Aki
Kaurismäki |
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