A TASTE OF KAURISMÄKI
Cult Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s deadpan, ironic and idiosyncratic films have established him as one of contemporary European cinema’s most accomplished filmmakers, renowned for his distinctively spare yet heartfelt character studies of society’s underdogs. Starting this July we give you the chance to get a taste of his unique brand of arthouse cinema with a selection of some of his best films.
His work – which comprised one-fifth of the Finnish film industry’s total output since the early ’80s – was distinguished by generous doses of raunchy humor, dead-on satire, a deliberate destruction of cinematic conventions, the carefully calculated smashing of censorial dictates, and, above all, an overwhelming sense of the absurd.