Fallen Leaves

2023 [FINNISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

27
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 169 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 35479 35.5K

helsinki, finland coma karaoke alcoholism romance loneliness

Plot summary

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

Director

Aki Kaurismäki Photo
Aki Kaurismäki

Top cast

Simon Al-Bazoon Photo
Simon Al-Bazoon as Internet-kahvilan pitäjä
Martti Suosalo Photo
Martti Suosalo as Raunio
Alina Tomnikov Photo
Alina Tomnikov as Tonja
Alma Pöysti Photo
Alma Pöysti as Ansa
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748.89 MB
1280*672
Finnish 2.0
NR
Subtitles fi  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 12
1.5 GB
1920*1008
Finnish 5.1
NR
Subtitles fi  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 34
1.36 GB
1920*1008
Finnish 5.1
NR
Subtitles fi  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx 8 / 10

Go to the cinema and fall in love...

..not with the movie, but with another seeker. That seems to be the main idea of Kaurismäki's movie Fallen Leaves.Life is hard and monotonous. It's also petty, particularly when you're on low wages. So find someone to squeeze. Have a go at a bit of solidarity too.Ansa and Holappa are both working annoying jobs in modern day Finland. They listen to news of the latest atrocities from the Russian army in Ukraine, they have a cigarette or a swig, they sit in unhappy bars, they struggle with their bosses, they are lonely. They admire the cinema.Some of the vignettes are well informed about poverty, earlier in my life I worked in a supermarket where we would be in trouble if we took out-of-date food, even though we were hungry and were being made to throw it in the bin. The bosses' view was that we would deliberately let things go off, or over prepare fresh food if we were allowed to take the out-of-date food away. When we have money we take for granted things like internet access, when you don't someone will gouge you for a few minutes access.Spend some time with someone who catches your fancy, use some energy to not mess it up. There's no sex in the movie and I quite like that in a society that over-fixates on fetishized addiction sex. Sometimes it's just lovely to have company, to talk and listen to music, just to feel their presence. Wouldn't you like a person round the house oh lonely cinema goer?
Reviewed by meinwonderland 6 / 10

Dry Romance

This is a simple story of boy meets girl, girl meets boy, with little, and often unimportant and dry, dialogue between the main characters. Yet somehow it had a lasting effect on me. Maybe the visuals wich I found really beautiful and aesthetic in a retro-like style. This is the first movie I see by Aki Kaurismaki and something tells me it's not going to be the last. While the story is simple, the delivery is not. For instance, the deadpan delivery of the actors is something I found interesting and at times funny. Interesting because other than Yorgos Lanthimos I know of no one who did this. Not only the delivery of the dialogue, but the content of the dialogue itself is something out of the ordinary. While most romcoms are full of conversations where the loved ones try to impress the other part and so on, here it is almost like the opposite. The dialogues are absolutely dry, dull, common, etc. And I don't say it in a bad way because at least in this movie it works. Anyway, it is worth a watch in my opinion.
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