29 November, 2013

AKI KAURISMAKI - THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST [KINEMATOGRAF, FINLAND] // 'PAHA VAANII' (OST BY MARKO HAAVISTO)

"If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back..."
 
The Man Without A Past occupies the nebulous realms between emotions and moods. It's deadpan-comic and entropic-tragic, ironic and optimistic, detached and intimate...
A kind of movie that can wholly lack a plot yet still unfold with a sense of internal logic that makes every diversion inexplicably inevitable. That's no mean feat for a film where even the dialogue routinely floats out of comprehension, with the lead character suddenly going off on a tangent about visiting the moon as another humors him. When asked whether he met someone, the man replies, "Not really, it was a Sunday."




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