“Fallen Leaves” tells the story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this honourable goal is clouded by the man's alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other's names or addresses, and life's general tendency to place obstacles in the way of those seeking their happiness.
This gentle tragicomedy, previously thought to be lost, is the fourth part of Aki Kaurismäki's working-class trilogy (“Shadows in Paradise”, “Ariel”, and “The Match Factory Girl”).
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Cannes ’23 – Jury Prize, Nomination for Palme d’Or
San Sebastian ’23 – FIPRESCI Film of the Year
European Film Awards ’23 – Nomination for European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter, European Actor, European Actress
Aki Kaurismaki
Finnish director, producer, screenwriter, actor and editor, born in 1957 in Orimattila. He worked as a postman, dishwasher and film critic. Together with his brother Mika they made the documentary Journey across Saimi and founded the production company “Villealfa”. Winner of Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes for The Man Without a Past, for which he receives after that the FIPRESCI Prize for Film of the Year and Academy Award nomination for foreign language film.
1983 Crime and Punishment (Rikos ja rangaistus)
1985 Calamari Union
1986 Rocky VI – short
1986 Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa)
1987 Hamlet Gets Business (Hamlet liikemaailmassa)
1988 Ariel
1989 Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1990 The Match Factory Girl (Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö)
1990 I Hired a Contract Killer (Bérgyilkost fogadtam)
1992 Bohemian Life (Boheemielämää)
1994 Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana)
1994 Total Balalaika Show (Puna-armeijan kuoro ja Leningrad Cowboys) – doc
1994 Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
1996 Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat)
1999 Juha
2002 The Man Without a Past
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2006 Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot)
2011 Le Havre
2017 The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen)
2023 Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet)
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