The vision of Aki Kaurismäki is always two-fold. Both time and places -
Ariel was "dedicated to the memory of Finnish reality" - are dreamlike,
dense cityscapes that Aki Kaurismäki manages to create in his films and
that basically do not have an equivalent in "real life". This basic
fact goes through all his films that can be roughly divided into three
or four genres ...
Aki Kaurismäki, born
in 1957, grew up into "the age terrorized by the television", and has
tried and managed to stick totally to the inseparable realities of the
real world and the "deep screen" that only the 35 mm film - light
against the electronic machinations, the beauty of artisan tradition
against technological overkill - makes possible ...
