FALLEN LEAVES (Sept 14) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki

Incredible that I see ANOTHER one of my favorite living directors who is retired with a movie coming out within days of Ken Loach's movie. Maybe Mike Leigh will announce a movie soon, too.



This looks like "Shadows in Paradise" mixed with "Ariel" which seems to be the gist of most of his movies, not counting "Leningrad Cowboys" and I can't imagine a better combination than Matti Pellonpaa and Kati Outinen but he died young, so maybe this is a new troupe, because now might be a great time to write movies, with this "writer's" strike.

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I like Kaurismaki. Lights in the Dusk is may favourite of his I've seen. This looks good too, I'm very much looking forward to it.

"The Old Oak" and "Fallen Leaves" .. interesting and similar themes from two interesting and similar guys.

I hope it's on Netflix (yeah right) since my Prime glitch is finally up after 4-5 years of free Prime (and all the other channels associated, for the trial length before they'd mention payment, but I'd wait a few days and re-sign on to Prime)

Varjoja paratiisissa is Kaurismäki's best.

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I saw this a while back, easily one of the best of 2023 so far.

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I like it.

Most definitely. It's in my Top 15 all-time.