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AKI KAURISMÄKI - Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Editor
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'LIGHTS IN THE DUSK concludes the trilogy began by 'Drifting Clouds' and 'The
Man without a Past'. Where the trilogy’s first film was about unemployment and
the second about homelessness, the theme of LIGHTS IN THE DUSK is loneliness.
Like Chaplin’s little tramp the protagonist, a man named Koistinen, searches the
hard world for a small crack to crawl in through, but both his fellow beings and
the faceless apparatus of the society see it their business to crush his modest
hopes, one after another.
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Criminal elements exploit his longing for love and his position as a night watchman in a robbery
they pull off, leaving Koistinen to face the consequences. This is done with the help of the most
callous woman in the history of cinema since Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ALL ABOUT EVE (1950).
Thus Koistinen is deprived of his job, his freedom, and his dreams.
Luckily for our protagonist, the author of the film has a reputation of being a soft-hearted old man,
so we can assume there is a spark of hope illuminating the final scene.'
- Aki Kaurismäki
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