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Lights in the Dusk (2007)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Jun 13, 2007

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Jun 13, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 80 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Janne Hyytiainen and Maria Jarvenhelmi

$HE GOT SERVED The joke\'s on Hyytiáinen (right, with Järvenhelmi) in the deadpan Dusk$

HE GOT SERVED The joke's on Hyytiáinen (right, with Järvenhelmi) in the deadpan Dusk

Gloomy Finnish jokester auteur Aki Kaurismäki calls Lights in the Dusk, a characteristically deadpan study, the third in his ''loser trilogy.'' (The Man Without a Past and Drifting Clouds came before.) Here, in a minimalist sketch best suited to already committed Aki-ites, a lonely night watchman (Janne Hyytiäinen) is used by a callous femme semi-fatale (Maria Järvenhelmi) in cahoots with a criminal businessman. Then his life is ruined. But wait — there's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke. B

Originally posted Jun 13, 2007 Published in issue #940 Jun 22, 2007 Order article reprints

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