Film Masters: Aki Kaurismäki (90s)

Aki Kaurismaki

Aki Kaurismäki continued in the 90s to develop the same cinema as in the 80s, same style, same themes and same quality, or even something higher in his films. So much so that his first film of that decade was the third installment of his triptych on the proletariat "The girl from the match factory”From 1990.

The short film, barely 70 minutes long, goes a step beyond the first two parts of the trilogy, becoming the film for which the author is best known today. Kaurismaki won the Jussi Award for best director for this film, an award given by the Finnish Film Academy.

Also from 1990 is "I hired a hit man”, An excellent black comedy that tells how a man must locate a hitman, who he himself has hired to kill him because he did not dare to commit suicide, before he carried out his work, because he found the reason for live in a woman he has met.

In 1992 Aki Kaurismäki filmed "The Life of Bohemia", a film for which the following year he was awarded the Jussi Award for Best Director by the Academy of Cinema of his country.

The bohemian life

"Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses" would arrive in 1994 as a sequel to his five-year-old film "Leningrad Cowboys Go America." Musical comedy that like its predecessor is narrated in the style road movie, although this time instead of doing it for the United States, the band "Leningrad Cowboys" will travel through Europe.

That year he would shoot two more films, “Grab your scarf, Tatiana”, another road movie comedy, this time set in the 60s, and the documentary medium-length “Total Balalaika Show”, about the Finnish group Leningrad Cowboys protagonists of his films "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" ​​and "Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses".

Leningrad Cowboys

Two years later Aki Kaurismäki is up for the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his new movie "Passenger Clouds", a fact that makes the director become somewhat more known. It is with this film that he wins the Jussi Award for best director for the fourth time.

In 1999, roll the silent tape "Juha" with great results, despite being a very risky project to make a silent film on the threshold of the XNUMXst century.

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Source | wikipedia

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