Lights in the Dusk (2006)

Recommended

Finland

Feature Film

Original Title: Laitakaupungin valot

Writer/Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Cinematographer: Timo Salminen

Composers: Melrose

Cast: Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Maria Heiskanen, Ilkka Koivula

A clueless innocent, who works as a night watchman when not deludedly dreaming of a better life, is made a patsy in the robbery of jewellery store by a Russian gang aided by an attractive blonde, in this beautifully photographed and blackly comic portrait of one of life’s eternal losers. Iain.Stott