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Flickan Fran Tandsticksfabriken (Tulitikkutehtaan tytto / The Match Factory Girl) - 1990
The Match Factory Girl is a Finnish/ Swedish coproduction. Kati Outinen plays the title character, trapped in a deadly dull job and an even deadlier duller home life. Against her family's wishes, she purchases a bright red dress and heads out for a night on the town. She spends the evening with a handsome wealthy man, who shows how significant this sexual pairing is by leaving her alone the next morning with a large sum of money.
Not wishing to tell her parents of her misadventure, Outinen splits the money with her brother, then waits in vain for her "lover" to return. When she finds she is pregnant, she writes a syrupy note to her erstwhile swain, who coldly sends her a money order and instructs her to get an abortion…
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian subtitles
Ariel - 1988
The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian subtitles
Skuggor I Paradiset (Varjoja paratiisissa / Shadows in Paradise) - 1986
In this romantic comedy, Nikander (Matti Pellonpaa) is a lonely garbage-truck driver who meets the homely check-out clerk Ilona (Kati Outinen). Their painful shyness makes for slow romantic progress, until Ilona loses her job, and the two rendezvous in a cozy country motel. Nikander proposes after returning items stolen by Ilona in retaliation for her being fired
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian subtitles
Moln Pa Drift (Kauas pilvet karkaavat / Drifting Clouds) - 1996
Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and clumsy, one disaster is followed by the next. Finally, their courage, confidence, and their unbreakable love triumph over the fate.
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish & Swedish subtitles
Mannen Utan Minne (The Man Without a Past / Mies vailla menneisyytta) - 1992
>Markku Peltola plays 'M', who arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously set upon by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. By some miracle he revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. Rebuilding his life from scratch, 'M' acquires a melancholy dog (a recurring Kaurismaki motif) named Hannibal and falls in love with a Salvation Army soup kitchen volunteer (Kati Outinen).
But the past inevitably catches up with him, forcing him to confront his future. Nominated for an Academy Award, The Man Without A Past is a beautifully observed and effortlessly charming masterpiece stylishly infused with Kaurismaki's keen eye for the surreal - nowhere more in evidence than in the deadpan dialogue - and the film-maker's compassion for the dispossessed. Containing nods to Hollywood amnesiac pictures of the 1950s and the director's beloved rock and roll, it's a unique work existing in an ultimately tender universe all of its very own..
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish, Norwegian & Swedish subtitles |
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