“Fallen Leaves” Analysis and Review: Finnish Master Aki Kaurismaki Portrays the Lives of the Marginalized Working-Class Finnish Citizens in His Beautiful Melancholic Deadpan Love Story “Fallen Leaves”
Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki is one of the most important figures in world cinema. His films always tell the tales of simple, marginalized working-class people. His recent retro-looking, minimalistic deadpan romantic tragicomedy Fallen Leaves is no exception. In the film, two lonely working-class souls, Ansa (Alma Poysti) and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen), meet at a Karaoke …