WED NOV 8, 2023 7:00 PM

ARIEL

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | ‘Happy Hours: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Series’

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  • RELEASED IN: 1988
  • 72 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Aki Kaurismäki

ABOUT THE FILM: 

In Finnish with English subtitles. 

In Aki Kaurismäki’s drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto (Turo Pajala) attempts to leave behind a provincial life of inertia and economic despair, only to get into ever deeper trouble. Yet a minor-key romance with a hilariously dispassionate meter maid (Susanna Haavisto) might provide a light at the end of a very dark tunnel. ARIEL, which boasts a terrific soundtrack of Finnish tango and Baltic pop music and lovely cinematography by Kaurismäki’s longtime cameraman Timo Salmimen, put its director on the international map.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Finland