Juha
Aki Kaurismäki / FI, 1999 / 78 min.
Kaurismäki filmed this fateful drama as a silent black and white film that unfolds from a simple melodramatic tale into an expressive drama. Add Kaurismäki’s outspoken sense of the darkly humorous aspects of the human condition and the result is best described as ‘a Finnish variation on Twin Peaks’, as a British critic put it.
Finland 100
The Essential Aki Kaurismäki programme celebrates Finland”s first centenary as an independent country. The Finnish republic was proclaimed on 6 December 1917, not long after the October Revolution in Russia.
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Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Production year
1999
Country
FI
Original title
Juha
Length
78 min.
Language
Finnish
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
The Essential Aki Kaurismäki
Eye Filmmuseum screens more than ten classic titles by Aki Kaurismäki, the chronicler of Finnish melancholy with an absurdist twist. The majority of the films featured in the programme are from Eye’s own collection and will be screened on 35mm.
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