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Director:
Writer:
Aki Kaurismäki (writer)
Release Date:
October 1990 (USA)
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Plot:
The movie tells the story of Taisto Kasurinen, a finnish coal miner whose father has just committed...
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Awards:
3 wins
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1 nomination
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(2 articles)
Shadows In Paradise Ariel The Match Factory Girl
(From The AV Club. 28 October 2008, 9:01 PM, PDT)
On DVD: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, "Shadow"
(From IFC. 23 September 2008, 11:36 AM, PDT)
(From The AV Club. 28 October 2008, 9:01 PM, PDT)
On DVD: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, "Shadow"
(From IFC. 23 September 2008, 11:36 AM, PDT)
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A Study in Acceptance and Spontaneity - a Way of Being that Defies Circumstance
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Turo Pajala | ... | Taisto Kasurinen | |
| Susanna Haavisto | ... | Irmeli Pihlaja | |
| Matti Pellonpää | ... | Mikkonen | |
| Eetu Hilkamo | ... | Riku | |
| Erkki Pajala | ... | Kaivosmies | |
| Matti Jaaranen | ... | Pahoinpitelijä | |
| Hannu Viholainen | ... | Apuri | |
| Jorma Markkula | ... | Prikkamies | |
| Tarja Keinänen | ... | Nainen Satamassa | |
| Eino Kuusela | ... | Mies rannalla | |
| Kauko Laalo | ... | Asuntolanhoitaja | |
| Jyrki Olsonen | ... | Mies Asuntolassa | |
| Esko Nikkari | ... | Autokauppias | |
| Marja Packalén | ... | Tuomari (as Marja Packalen) | |
| Mikko Remes | ... | Vankilalääkäri |
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Ariel (USA)
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Runtime:
73 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:M |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) |
Finland:K-12 (original rating) |
Iceland:L |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:Not Rated
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Aki Kaurismäki wrote the script over a weekend.
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Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja:
[Taisto and Irmeli has just been on their first date] What shall we do now?
Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Let's get marriend and have a child.
Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: I already have a child.
Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: That's good. We'll spare some time.
Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Are you always so self-confident?
Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: This is the first time.
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Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Let's get marriend and have a child.
Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: I already have a child.
Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: That's good. We'll spare some time.
Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Are you always so self-confident?
Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: This is the first time.
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Movie Connections:
Features High Sierra (1941)
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Soundtrack:
Menneitä muistellessa
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Director-screenwriter Kaurismäki seems to portray a way of feeling that defies circumstance. The protagonists see contentment and adversity without glee, remorse or recrimination. There is an unspoken lesson. In relating to one another the protagonists do not require validation, offer explanations or make demands. Main character Taisto faces the coarsest of the coarse amicably without fawning fearfully or retaliating reactively. Another character, the boy, is intelligent, quiet, never doubts, has no complex puzzlement about loyalty. What is remarkable is that none of the foregoing is typical of a real, live modern person: most of us spend thousands attempting to reach such a state of grace.