6/29/2023 0 Comments The darkness outside us book 2But hope, much like “Fallen Leaves” itself, is only ever believed to be lost, and happiness is never far at hand. Indeed, she gets fired from the supermarket for stealing expired food, and he struggles to stay sober long enough to get through an entire shift at the construction site where he works with his friend, Houtari (Kaurismäki veteran Janne Hyytiäinen, wonderful here as a wannabe lothario who possesses a divine confidence in his karaoke skills). There are exceptions to that rule across the director’s body of work, and the fact that “Fallen Leaves” is amusingly billed as the “lost” fourth film in his Proletarian Trilogy - which ended on an uncharacteristically bleak note with 1990’s “The Match-Factory Girl” - would seem cause for concern that things between Ansa and Holappa might not work out so well. They are (to a degree), but as tends to be the case in Kaurismäki’s films, their lives are also never quite as bleak as they seem. ‘Indiana Jones’ Producer Frank Marshall on the WGA Strike: ‘We Have to Figure Out a New Formula’
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