The Man Without a Past
Since the 1980s, Aki Kaurismäki has been inventing fables of the present day, which highlight the absurdity and cruelty of our world without ever losing their generosity and sense of derision. With his latest film about to be released, this short cycle is an opportunity to delve into a cinematography that has never ceased to pay homage to the working classes and marginalized people of all kinds.
Reprise le 29 octobre en VOSTF
Just arrived in Helsinki, a man asleep on a bench is violently attacked. In a very bad state, he survives, but suffers from amnesia. He is helped by local homeless people and the Salvation Army, where he meets and falls in love with Irma.
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director. His early film career was marked by close collaboration with his brother Mika. His first feature film was the acclaimed adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel: Crime and Punishment (1983). Kaurismäki says he admires the work of Teuvo Tulio, his "master" in the world of cinema. A lover of the Nouvelle Vague, he named his production company Villealpha, after Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville. His films began to attract attention at film festivals, before gaining international recognition with La Fille aux allumettes (1990), the third part of his Proletariat Trilogy, starring his two favorite actors Matti Pellonpää and Kati Outinen. His next films included J'ai engagé un tueur with Jean-Pierre Léaud, whom he had always admired and an adaptation of the opera La Bohème (La Vie de bohème), with French actors and Matti Pellompää. His film L'Homme sans passé, which won the Grand Prix and Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for Best Foreign Language Film. He then wrote and directed Le Havre, a Finnish-French-German film that was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 who received also the Prix Louis-Delluc the same year.
