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Lights in the Dusk (Finnish: Laitakaupungin valot) is a 2006 Finnish comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and edited by Aki Kaurismäki. Starring Janne Hyytiäinen, Ilkka Koivula, and Maria Järvenhelmi, the film was presented at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Feb 3, 2006 · Lights in the Dusk: Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. With Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Maria Heiskanen, Ilkka Koivula. In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
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- Crime, Drama
- Aki Kaurismäki
- 2006-02-03
Jul 17, 2008 · "Lights in the Dusk," now on DVD from Strand, is the third film in his "loser trilogy," preceded by "Drifting Clouds," the story of an unemployed couple hopelessly in debt, and "The Man Without a Past," the story of a homeless man who has no idea who he is.
Koistinen is a security guard at a shopping center whose dreams of a better life are continually crushed. Things seem to be looking up when Mirja shows an amorous interest in him but what he...
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- Janne Hyytiäinen
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Drama
By Stephen Holden. June 13, 2007. A mood of cosmic desolation seeps like late autumn sunlight filtered through clouds in “Lights in the Dusk,” the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki’s...
Jun 13, 2007 · Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
Apr 2, 2007 · In the rewarding Lights in the Dusk, it is Kostinen (Janne Hyytiäinen), a lonely nightwatchman at a shopping centre, whose dreams and pretensions of a better life are picked apart by an almost ...
