Even though Aki Kaurismaki has won every award going and is a household name in his native Finland, where he is treated like a god, it may be that you’ve never heard of him. He is the business. He specialises in understated dramas about deadpan losers whose hopes are often crushed, but who somehow find comfort.

Kaurismaki is the business / Fallen Leaves reviewed

Kaurismaki is the business / Fallen Leaves reviewed

Even though Aki Kaurismaki has won every award going and is a household name........

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