#kari väänänen

[suddenmovements]

The Last Border (1993, dir. Mika Kaurismäki)

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Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) (1996) Aki Kaurismäki

January 12th 2024

[twenty-words-or-less]

Night on Earth

Summary: A series of shorts taking place on the same night in different parts of the world.

Vignette structure works in favour of this slice of life dramedy. Beatrice Dalle a sharp standout, Rome best one overall.

Rating: 3.5/5

Photo credit: IMDb

[bubskino]

Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä

Karvahattukääpä ajaa kotteronsa lunastuskuntoon. Samanlainen tarvii saada tilalle. Saksasta löytyy. Hakureissulla fiilistellään samalla broidin kanssa menneitä.

Sympaattista kamaa edelleen, joskin välillä ollaan jo liiankin vakavia.

2/5

[unateoriadegliautori]

helsinki napoli all night long (1987)

[byneddiedingo]

Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder 

Armin Mueller-Stahl and Giancarlo Esposito 

Béatrice Dalle and Isaach De Bankolé 

Paolo Bonicelli and Roberto Benigni

Matti Pellonpäá 

Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991) Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Isaach De Bankolé, Béatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Tomi Salmela. Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch. Cinematography: Frederick Elmes. Film editing: Jay Rabinowitz. Music: Tom Waits People don't smoke in taxis anymore -- at least in tobacco-hostile America -- so Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth probably evokes a kind of nostalgie de la boue in smokers or ex-smokers. Everyone lights up in the five segments of the movie, although Los Angeles resident Victoria Snelling (Gena Rowlands) at least chides her driver, Corky (Winona Ryder), for indulging the habit -- only to light up her own after Corky sarcastically refers to her as "Ma." Perhaps Victoria's advice crosses some kind of line between passenger and cabbie. In Rome, it will be the cabbie (Roberto Benigni) who crosses the line, persuading his priest-passenger (Paolo Bonacelli) to hear his taxicab confession, an experience that will bring about the priest's demise. In New York, passenger YoYo (Giancarlo EspositoP even becomes the cabbie, taking over the wheel from the incompetent driver, new immigrant Helmut Grokenberger (Armin Mueller-Stahl). At least in Paris and Helsinki the old conventions remain, although Isaach De Bankolé's driver is infuriated at the liberties some of his passengers take with him, especially the well-to-do Africans who taunt him for his lowly Côte d'Ivoire origins. In Helskini there's a kind of working-class solidarity between Mika (Matti Pellonpää) and his drunken passengers, one of whom has not only just been fired but has also learned that his daughter is pregnant and his wife has left him. What do all of these slices of life add up to? That's one of the charms of reflecting on an anthology film like Night on Earth, in which discrete segments seem to echo and enlarge one another. One of the reasons that taxicabs are so effective a setting for movies is that they can become crucibles for temporary relationships, moments out of time and space that seem more freighted with meaning than they really are -- Benigni's cabbie makes the resemblance of taxi to confessional booth part of his appeal to the priest. Put together five such moments, in five distinct cities, and you have something that looks like a statement about our common humanity. Although each segment neatly evokes the character of its particular city -- the glitz of LA, the grubby hopefulness of New York, the weary cosmopolitanism of Paris, the religion-steeped past and skeptical present of Rome, the chilly Cold War-haunted between-two-worlds quality of Helsinki -- the space and time inside their taxicabs seems oddly universal. That's what I love about Jarmusch's movies: Long after you've watched them, you're still savoring the details while bemused by the whole.

[periodicoirreverentes]

CINE EXPRESS: “Calamari Union”

Helena Garrote Carmena Año: 1985País: FinlandiaDirección: Aki KaürismakiGuion: Aki KaürismakiActores: Matti Pellonpää, Punttin Valtonen, Sakke Järvenpää, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Kari Väänänen, Asmo Hurula, Kari Heiskanen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Pertti Sveholm.Género: Sátira – Surrealismo. Gamberrada máxima de Aki Kaürismaki.Dieciocho perdedores cansados de sus vidas trazan un plan para escapar al…

[jorgerisso]

Lo que vi esta semana

MESTARI CHENG

"Un amor cerca del paraiso"

Género: Comedia. Drama

Año: 2019

Pais: Finlandia

Dirección: Mika Kaurismäki

🎬 Otra de las joyitas escondidas que amantes del cine quiere recomendarles.

Y si lo repito una joya para los amantes de la fotografía con paisajes fantásticos.

El director Mika Kaurismäki, hermano menor de Aki, tiene en los genes un don, y es el de construir a sus personajes formando un cuidado y bien construido relato. Un placer visual. Y no me olvido de la música de

Anssi Tikanmäki, un placer.

📽 La vida de Cheng, cocinero profesional cambia drasticamente cuando un automóvil mata a su esposa en Shanghaí entonces cae en la bebida y contrae deudas. Un amigo lo ayuda prestándole dinero para reflotar su restoran. Una vez recuperado física y económicamente viaja con su hijo pequeño a una aldea remota de Finlandia para reunirse con su amigo y devolverle el dinero. A su llegada, no encuentra a nadie que conozca a su amigo, pero la dueña del café del pueblo, Sirkka, le ofrece alojamiento y a cambio, Cheng la ayuda en la cocina sorprendiendo a los lugareños con las delicias de la cocina china. Poco a poco, sus recetas van fomentando el contacto entre las dos culturas, separadas por una enorme distancia.

☆ Buena

Reparto:

Pak Hon Chu, Anna-Maija Tuokko, Lucas Hsuan, Kari Väänänen, Vesa-Matti Loiri

#amantesdelcinedejorgedomingorisso

#buencine

[musidoro]

DRIFTING CLOUDS (Kauas pilvet karkaavat, 1996). directed by Aki Kaurismäki.

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Aki Kaurismäki’s “Boheemielämää” (La Vie de bohème) February 28, 1992.

[filmsinayear]

Kauas pilvet karkaavat (eng: Drifting Clouds), Aki Kaurismäki, 1996

[justframes]

Night on earth Jim Jarmusch 1991

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Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) Aki Kaurismäki

June 1st 2024

[davidhudson]

Happy 74th, André Wilms.

With Kari Väänänen in Aki Kaurismäki’s La vie de bohème (1992).

[genevieveetguy]

I'm sorry I sound calm. I assure you I'm hysterical.

Night on Earth, Jim Jarmusch (1991)

[filmap]

Kauas pilvet karkaavat / Drifting Clouds Aki Kaurismäki. 1996

Bench Tehtaankatu 23, 00150 Helsinki, Finland See in map

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