ARIEL
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Los Feliz 3 | ‘Happy Hours: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Series’
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- RELEASED IN: 1988
- 72 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Aki Kaurismäki
ABOUT THE FILM:
In Finnish with English subtitles.
In Aki Kaurismäki’s drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto (Turo Pajala) attempts to leave behind a provincial life of inertia and economic despair, only to get into ever deeper trouble. Yet a minor-key romance with a hilariously dispassionate meter maid (Susanna Haavisto) might provide a light at the end of a very dark tunnel. ARIEL, which boasts a terrific soundtrack of Finnish tango and Baltic pop music and lovely cinematography by Kaurismäki’s longtime cameraman Timo Salmimen, put its director on the international map.
FORMAT: 35mm
DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films
COUNTRY: Finland