Lonely bin man meets disaffected supermarket assistant. Takes her on first date to bingo. Bad move. “I don’t think it will work out” she says. “What won’t?” he says. “Anything“. Anything doesn’t work out often. Or only dismally. And mostly not in the way you expected or hoped. Not in Kaurismaki’s world. She gets sacked. [...]
I have to like Kaurismaki films. Even tho i don’t like to like them. Don’t like retro rockabilly chic at all. I can imagine Kaurismaki sitting around drinking pots and bottles of coffee and vodka, listening to 1950′s rockers and Finnish tango, with a fag on, picking at chips and burgers, getting slowly sozzled. And [...]
Lets get the grumbles out the way first: Sally Army bands doing rockabilly is crap. I don’t like kitschy retro hip jukeboxes. Or squeeze boxes weezing out Finnish Tango. I don’t like the candy coloured Edward Hopperesque artificiality of some of the set-ups in this film either. And I’m getting a bit fed up of [...]
