Match Cut Directors Consensus - Aki Kaurismäki

[dreamdead]

Filling in the thread post welcome for E.

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Filmography below


* Crime and Punishment, 1983
* Calamari Union, 1985
* Shadows in Paradise, 1986
* Hamlet Goes Business, 1987
* Ariel, 1988
* Leningrad Cowboys Go America, 1989
* The Match Factory Girl, 1990
* I Hired a Contract Killer, 1990
* La Vie de Bohème, 1992
* Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana, 1994
* Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, 1994
* Drifting Clouds, 1996
* Juha, 1999
* The Man Without a Past, 2002
* Lights in the Dusk, 2006
* Le Havre, 2011

[Raiders]

Ariel (1988) 7.0
The Match Factory Girl (1990) 8.0
Drifting Clouds (1996) 9.0
The Man Without a Past (2002) 7.5

[Yxklyx]

The Man Without a Past - 7

[Qrazy]

Ariel (1988) - 5.5
The Man Without a Past (2002) - 6.5

[Spinal]

The Man Without a Past - 6.5

[Kurosawa Fan]

The Man Without a Past - 7.0

[ContinentalOp]

He's pretty good.

Shadows in Paradise- 7.5
Hamlet Goes Business- 9
Ariel- 9.5
Leningrad Cowboys Go America- 9
The Match Factory Girl- 8
I Hired a Contract Killer- 8
La Vie de Bohème- 8.5
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses- 7
Drifting Clouds- 8.5
Juha- 7.5
The Man Without a Past- 9.5
Lights in the Dusk- 6.5

[Stay Puft]

Leningrad Cowboys Go America - 4

[soitgoes...]

Calamari Union (1985) - 9.0
Shadows in Paradise (1986) - 7.0
Ariel (1988) - 9.0
The Match Factory Girl (1990) - 7.0
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) - 6.5
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994) - 7.5
Drifting Clouds (1996) - 8.0

[baby doll]

Shadows in Paradise (1986) [7]
Ariel (1988) [7]
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) [7]
The Match Factory Girl (1990) [6]
Drifting Clouds (1998) [6]
The Man Without a Past (2002) [10]
Lights in the Dusk (2006) [4]

[Grouchy]

Hamlet Goes Business - 7
The Match Factory Girl - 8
The Bohemian Life - 9
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses - 6
Drifting Clouds - 9
The Man Without a Past - 9
Lights in the Dusk - 6

[Boner M]

Breakin' my silence for this one.

Crime & Punishment – 6
Shadows in Paradise – 7
Hamlet Goes Business – 5
Ariel – 8.5
Leningrad Cowboys Go America – 7
The Match Factory Girl – 9
I Hired a Contract Killer – 7
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana – 7.5
Drifting Clouds – 8.5
Juha – 5
The Man Without a Past – 8.5

He's great, but man do some of his films blend into one in the memory. Really had to struggle to tangle them apart.

[Llopin]

Crime and Punishment - 7
Calamari Union - 8
Shadows in Paradise - 8
Hamlet Goes Business - 6.5
Ariel - 9.5
Leningrad Cowboys Go America - 6.5
The Match Factory Girl - 8.5
I Hired a Contract Killer - 6.5
The Bohemian Life - 7.5
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana - 7
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses - 5
Drifting Clouds - 9
Juha - 6.5
The Man Without a Past - 7.5
Lights in the Dusk - 6

I greatly admire his style yet sometimes it can get too overbearing (see last film).

Also, Matti Pellonpää is one of my favourite actors ever.

[baby doll]

By the way, the ratings for The Match Factory Girl so far strike me as inexplicably high, given how much of a rip-off of Mouchette it is. As a rule, I tend to prefer Kaurismäki's pastiches of 1930s Hollywood films (romantic comedies in Shadows in Paradise, and depression-era crime pictures in Ariel) to his pastiches of art movies (for instance, The Last Laugh in Drifting Clouds), because the former are so full of twists and turns that, on a moment to moment basis, I didn't know where they were headed. (Lights in the Dusk is a major exception.)

[Boner M]

By the way, the ratings for The Match Factory Girl so far strike me as inexplicably high, given how much of a rip-off of Mouchette it is.
It's quite blatantly Hans Christian Andersen by the way of Bresson. Which is an awesome mix.

[baby doll]

It's quite blatantly Hans Christian Andersen by the way of Bresson. Which is an awesome mix.It felt more Bresson than Andersen to me (then again, I haven't read the latter since fourth grade), to the point that I couldn't stop thinking about Mouchette the entire time I was watching it: De-dramatized scene of the protagonist making her family dinner, check. The protagonist being called a whore, check. The protagonist attempting suicide, suggested by an offscreen sound cue, check.

[Qrazy]

Sounds terrible, much like Mouchette was.

[origami_mustache]

Drifting Clouds (1996) - 7

[StanleyK]

The Man without a Past - 8

[ContinentalOp]

How are you guys getting your hands or eyes on stuff like Calamari Union and Take Care of Your Scarf? I live in Portland, Oregon and I'm trying to track these films down.

[Mysterious Dude]

The Match Factory Girl - 6.5

I liked the whore stuff more than the insane serial killer stuff. Also, I don't know much about rat poison, but it seems like it's made to kill a pretty small animal and mixing it with water and alcohol is probably not going to make it more deadly to a human. Granted, we never see the bodies.

[soitgoes...]

How are you guys getting your hands or eyes on stuff like Calamari Union and Take Care of Your Scarf? I live in Portland, Oregon and I'm trying to track these films down.
Torrents.