La fiammiferaia aki kaurismaki biography

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  • In the cinema of Aki Kaurismäki, the clash between reality and fairy-tale madness is always fierce.

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    Country: Finland

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    Duration: 5'


    Nicky escapes from prison. He looks for his girl in the bars and hotels. All he can see in his new freedom is that no one cares for the future of human culture.

    Aki Kaurismäki

    The thirty-six-year old Finn Aki Kaurismäki (Orimattila, ) is a director as well as screenwriter, editor, actor, and producer. He is an ex-critic and organizer of a festival in Lapland. Kaurismäki was the great discovery of European cinema of the late 's. He made all his films inside of about a decade and at an unusual pace, especially for a country like Finland, even though some of his films were made abroad. All his films were produced by the production house that he runs with his brother Mika. They are low-cost, short in length, quick improvised, and carry a heavy intellectual charge.

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    Saimaa-ilmiö (La sindrome del lago Saimaa, doc., ), Rikos ja rangaistus (Delitto e castigo, ), Calamari Union (),

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    Aki Kaurismäki&#;s Films: Between Laconic Comedy and Poignant Humanism

    by Mariuccia Ciotta

    Perched in a row against a wall in a dance hall, with karaoke in full swing, or standing, leaning against the entrance of a small suburban cinema, they smoke. Or, motionless, petrified, around a table facing bottles of Finnish vodka, Kossu schnapps. Their eyes fixed elsewhere, unblinking. The characters in Aki Kaurismäki&#;s films exist in an imaginary waiting room. The empty restaurant in Drifting Clouds or the mesmerizing display of wrenches in Tatjana. Like their beloved Beckett, they wait.

    Frost, darkness, poverty in a Finland not of today but an abstract, anachronistic landscape. &#;The 70s have been much ridiculed, but they were a period of passion, far more than today&#;s post-imperialist digital era.&#; The Finland of Aki&#;s times, having cycled through some forty odd jobs, from construction worker to warehouseman, from dishwasher to painter and journalist, before turning to fi

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    Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö / The Match Factory Girl. Iris (Kati Outinen) visits her father's grave. Please click on the photos to enlarge them.

    Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö / The Match Factory Girl. Iris (Kati Outinen) visits the Queen of the Night at the Botanical Garden.

    Flickan från tändsticksfabriken / La Fille aux allumettes / Das Mädchen aus der Streichholzfabrik / La fiammiferaia.
        FI PC: Villealfa Filmproductions Oy / SFI Svenska Filminstitutet.
        P+D+SC: Aki Kaurismäki. DP: Timo Salminen. AD: Risto Karhula. Cost: Marja-Leena Helin. S: Jouko Lumme. ED: Aki Kaurismäki. Ass D: Pauli Pentti. P (SFI): Klas Olofsson, Katinka Faragó. Photographs: Marja-Leena Helin.
        M selections: Aki Kaurismäki. Original M: Mauri Sumén. "Satumaa" (Unto Mononen), perf. Reijo Taipale. "Sidran" and "Donoussa" (Klaus Treuheit). "Cadillac" (Kim Brown, Denys Gibson, Graham Johnson, Ian Mallett) perf. The Renegades (). P. I. Tchaikovsky: