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Lights in the Dusk
Lights in the Dusk
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LIGHTS IN THE DUSK

Laitakaupungin valot

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Germany, 2006
Drama, Comedy

Synopsis

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Synopsis

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Our take

Aki Kaurismäki concludes his so-called “Loser Trilogy” with a minimalist Bressonian fable. An existentially charged anatomisation of urban loneliness indebted to the work of Edward Hopper, this noirish morality tale seeks love and redemption along modern Helsinki’s thoroughfares of broken dreams.