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LIGHTS IN THE DUSK concludes a series
of three films described as The Loser
Trilogy. The two preceding films 'Drifting
Clouds' and 'The Man Without a Past'
were also screened in the Cannes Film
Festival Competition Series. 'The Man
Without a Past' was a story about life
that had to be rebuilt.
LIGHTS IN THE DUSK is also a tale of a
shadowy man, or perhaps rather a story
where the world has turned shadowy
for a man upholding old-fashioned virtues
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In their place stand betrayal and deceit, together with the absurd state of insolent division of
income, sharp as a theorem: property is, concealed or openly, theft.
There is no single image that some other director might put his signature on, nor is there no
stretch of dialogue someone else could have written. The soundtrack, too, is exceptional, con-
taining in one magnificent touch the voices of the two true tango kings: the Argentinian Carlos
Gardel, whom everyone knows, and the Finnish Olavi Virta, known only to a few foreigners
but who should be known by everyone. And in the midst of this, a strange man - a new and
dreamy apparition in Kaurismäki’s world.
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