Sponsor Message A nice example is his latest, Fallen Leaves, which the international film critics group FIPRESCI voted the best film of 2023. Clocking in at a commendable 81 minutes, it tells a ...

In the latest from the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki, two lonely people find each other with tenderness, karaoke and deadpan comedy. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” short, sweet and utterly delightful, is the kind of movie that’s so charming, you want to run it back the moment it’s over. Kaurismäki, the writer ...

Helsinki is staggeringly bleak in writer-director Aki Kaurismäki's "Fallen Leaves." It's home to downtrodden workers hanging on by a thread to any shred of decency that happens to cross their ...

Aki Kaurismaki’s “Fallen Leaves” is both magical and despairing, born of what the Finnish auteur’s stars say is an unusual shooting approach. By Esther Zuckerman There’s a detail in Aki ...

Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and UK director Jonathan Glazer The Zone Of Interest lead the nominations in the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards which will ...

Running just 81 minutes, Fallen Leaves is slight compared to many of Kaurismäki’s more complex narratives, but its well of feeling creeps up on you and it delivers a good share of laugh-out ...