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Lights In The Dusk [2007] | ![Lights In The Dusk [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Kl1LvBgoL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Actors: Janne Hyytainen, Maria Heiskanen
Studio: Artificial Eye
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: Finnish (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5021866349305
ASIN: B000SKAT4Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: August 27, 2007
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Great Kaurismaki August 10, 2008
Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lights in the Dusk may not be among Aki Kaurismaki's very best films, but is a good addition to his oeuvre. The movie is about Koistinen, a thirty-something security guard who is portrayed as the definition of a loser. He falls quickly for a blonde from the mob, even though he almost certainly knows from the start that this is a setup. The blonde gets his security codes, so the gangsters she is associated with can steal a jewelry at the department stores he guards. The running gag of the movie is that Koistinen is so lonely and hungry for personal companionship that the blonde has almost nothing to do to get his confidence: no sex, no kisses, and after he is caught, he refuses to name her to the police. Meanwhile, he rejects the only woman in the world that seems to care for him: a plain, if kind, hot dog vendor. The movie chronicles the sad fall of this man, even though at the very end a ray of hope (improbably) emerges. The problem with the movie is that Kaurismaki's has become too mannerist a filmmaker: the film is full of his usual quirks; for example, Koistinen and the two women he is involved with never made eye contact, as the actors are told to made a blank stare when they talk to each other. As usual in Kaurismaki's films, the music is great: the movie starts and ends with two tangos by the great Carlos Gardel: Volver and El Dia Que me Quieras. In between, there are a number of good Finnish tangos and classic opera songs. Kaurismaki regular Kati Outinen appears in a cameo as a supermarket vendor (if I'm not mistaken, that was the role she played in her first Kaurismaki movie: Shadows in Paradise).
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