‘fallen leaves’
Manager: Aki Kaurismaki
Gender: Comedy
Year: 2023
Premiere: 12/27/23
★★★★
It’s great news to end the year with the premiere of a movie. film As extraordinary as ‘Falling Leaves’. It is aimed both at audiences familiar with the cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (“The Man Without a Past”) and at those lucky enough to discover it for the first time. Your surprise will be big. This is great news, because there aren’t many opportunities these days to come across a film this personal, this raw, this unconventional. (aesthetic, thematic, even emotional) and timeless – in the best sense..
He also combines references with a delightful impudence, showing that he is in love with the cinema (the room, the tents and the entrance of the cinema, the meeting point with the other are an important part of this story) without falling into excessive nostalgia: Jim Jarmusch’s comments about ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ are priceless. About the flirtation between a supermarket worker and an alcoholic construction worker (with a beautiful, sad past, marked by Chaplin-esque boredom). ‘Falling Leaves’ is expertly staged and planned with magnificent use of color. He is influenced by a unique and minimalist sense of humor. And it captures reality without thesis or explanation (precarity, alcoholism, class). All of them are the main characteristics of its author. ‘Falling Leaves is the most unusual and beautiful romantic comedy produced by recent cinema.