Ariel
Aki Kaurismäki
Kasurinen, an unemployed miner, leaves his childhood Lapland in the large American car left to him by a friend who committed suicide. In Helsinki, he meets Irmeli, a young woman. Arrested on delinquency charges, he is imprisoned. Irmeli helps him escape...
With : Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo, Erkki Pajala, Matti Jaaranen, Hannu Viholainen, Jorma Markkula, Tarja Teinänen, Eino Kuusela, Kauko Laalo, Jyrki Olsonen
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Jouko Lumme
Editing : Raija Talvio
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Jouko Lumme
Editing : Raija Talvio
Production : Villealfa Film Productions
Distribution: Pyramide
Distribution: Pyramide
Like Jarmush, Kaurismäki hates strong, handsome, ambitious and charming characters. Instead, he likes magnificent losers who take one hit after another (...) without blinking an eye, they're so used to their bad luck." (Diastème) "Kaurismäki succeeds in reconciling the epic film and cinema d'auteur with documentary and fiction, with European reality and the American dream. Ariel is as realistic as a documentary about Helsinki, and as fanciful as a silent film-era melodrama. Like that era, when speech was still an intruder alongside so many images, everything is transmitted through glances, objects, melodies and gestures. It's what animates the film." (A. Kilb)