Review of Lights in the Dusk (2006) by Leonid B — 20 Aug 2010
Watching this film hurts. It's pure pain - uncomfortable, deep, unbearable pain. Don't be mistaken - Kaurismäki didn't want to entertain you with black humour in this film, he didn't want to entertain you at all. He wants you to feel commiseration (a feeling we seem to have left behind in the 20th century). And he wants you to feel for one hour everything Koistinen feels in every minute of his life: loneliness, dissapointment and failure.
It is probably a movie you never want to watch again, but you should do it once and a while, just to remember how compassion feels.
This review of Lights in the Dusk (2006) was written by Leonid B on 20 Aug 2010.
Lights in the Dusk has generally received positive reviews.
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