@deanduncan63Saw #ShadowsinParadise. Surface: barely black-comic miserabilism. Substance: transcendental taciturnity. Funny, believing, beautiful.
#ShadowsinParadise. The setting & the philosophy is obviously utterly other, but the cutting & camera here are very Bressonian.
#ShadowsinParadise. I love how Kaurismaki loves/honours work, & working people. Not so far from Popular Front cinema, actually …
… In this, he’s anticipating the glories of his later, sublime Le Havre (q.v.). Its French 1930s’ roots are quite explicit …
… but this so-called Proletariat Trilogy (http://bit.ly/1BrLbu9) shows that these values were already native to him.
#ShadowsinParadise. A bona fide prince/princess tale, w’ a muted but glorious, utterly sincere happy ending …
… Who wouldn’t want to take his almost mute chain-smoking loved one on a Soviet cruise ship to Estonia?