The main themes in Aki Kaurismäkis movies are pessimism, tragedy, sadness, irony and humour.
His films are quite short - he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer to 70. They are eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around 1950s rock'n'roll. He is extremely self-deprecating about his work - of Leningrad Cowboys go America (1989) - probably his most popular film -, he says "it's the worst film in the history of the cinema, unless you count Sylvester Stallone's films".
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(ver menos)The main themes in Aki Kaurismäkis movies are pessimism, tragedy, sadness, irony and humour.
His films are quite short - he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer to 70. They are eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around 1950s rock'n'roll. He is extremely self-deprecating about his work - of Leningrad Cowboys go...
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