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Aki Kaurismäki

January 2024

  • ‘It’s cold and dark up here – so being happy can be hard’ … Maustetytöt.

    Zig-a-zig-pah: Finland’s ‘Spice Girls’ find joy in misery – and a Kaurismäki collaboration

    Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in the Fallen Leaves director

December 2023

  • Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen sit together in a cinema in Fallen Leaves.

    Fallen Leaves review – Aki Kaurismäki’s almost feelgood romance is a droll delight

    Two lonely souls connect in a rain-lashed Helsinki in this unexpectedly uplifting drama from the Finnish master of melancholy

May 2023

  • "Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine)" Red Carpet - The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival, France - 21 May 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Daniele Cifalà/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13924055ca) Amr Waked, Mina Andala, Sam Riley, Junia Rees, a guest, Gabrielle Tana, director Karim Ainouz, Alicia Vikander, and Jude Law attend the ''Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine)'' red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2023 in Cannes, France. "Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine)" Red Carpet - The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival, France - 21 May 2023

    Big names, joyful hugs, auteur fury: verdict and prize predictions for Cannes 2023

  • Lonely hearts club … Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen in Fallen Leaves.

    Fallen Leaves review – deadpan Aki Kaurismäki comedy with springtime in its heart

February 2018

  • Best of 2017 … (clockwise from top left) Get Out, Personal Shopper, Moonlight, The Lego Batman Movie, The Handmaiden

    Best films
    The best films of 2017 so far

    La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues

June 2017

  • My Life As a Courgette

    Five of the best… new films
    My Life As a Courgette and After the Storm: this week’s best films in the UK

    The innocence of childhood is captured perfectly in an animation about a care home, while a life-affirming drama highlights the intricacies of family life

May 2017

  • Sherwan Haji and Sakari Kuosmanen in The Other Side of Hope.

    The Other Side of Hope review – wry refugee comedy

    A Syrian asylum seeker finds friendship with a hapless Finnish restaurateur in part two of Aki Kaurismäki’s migrant trilogy
  • Aki Kaurismäki.

    Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover'

    He tackles big issues but can’t resist adding jokes, once turning Hamlet into a story about rubber ducks. As The Other Side of Hope hits cinemas, the Finnish director talks about lazy actors, parking tickets – and his Holby City addiction
  • The Other Side of Hope - press publicity film still

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Other Side of Hope review – coolly comic take on the refugee crisis

    Aki Kaurismäki’s tale of a Syrian refugee who stows away to Finland mines the deadpan humour he’s famous for while refusing to flinch from heartbreak and hardship

February 2017

  • Director Ildiko Enyedi receives the Golden Bear for Best Film 'On Body and Soul' during the awards ceremony at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 18, 2017. REUTERS/Britta Pedersen/POOL TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Hungarian slaughterhouse love story wins top prize at Berlin film festival

  • Sherwan Haji and Simon Hussein

    The Other Side of Hope review – Syrian refugee story honours Kaurismäki's legacy

May 2013

  • Castle in Italy aka A Chateau en Italie film still

    First look review
    Cannes 2013: A Castle in Italy (Un Chateau en Italie) – first look review

    Peter Bradshaw: Actor-turned-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has given us probably the worst film of the Cannes competition so far: a smug, twee confection about a family losing their house

April 2012

  • 2011, LE HAVRE

    Le Havre – review

  • Le Havre

    Le Havre – review

  • Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre

    Box office analysis: UK
    Video on demand: kill or cure for arthouse cinemas?

  • Aki Kaurismaki

    Curzon on demand
    Seven rounds with Aki Kaurismäki

March 2012

  • Le Havre

    Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre is like all his other work and thank goodness for that

    The director and writer has learned from the greats – and with his latest, Le Havre, he proves that he's earned his place among them, says John Patterson

  • Film blog
    Watch Aki Kaurismäki's new film Le Havre online with us

    From April 6, Cannes favourite Le Havre will be in cinemas. But for those who might prefer (and live in the UK or Ireland), you can stream it here via Curzon on Demand. Either way, be sure to tune in for our Q&A with top evolutionary theorist Mark Pagel next Friday night

  • Trailer park
    Le Havre: watch the trailer - video

    Watch the trailer for Aki Kaurismäki's new film, which will be streamed on the Guardian/film when it's released in the UK on 6 April

June 2007

  • Film blog
    The view: sick and twisted? It's Hostel Part 2

    This week's film blogs were repulsed by Eli Roth and Hostel Part 2, amused by Kevin Costner's Mr Brooks, and thrilled by half an hour of Aki Kaurismaki.

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