Cheap 👍 Aki Kaurismaki Collection Vol.1 DVD – Matti Pellonp, Kati Outinen  👍

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Three classic films from acclaimed Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki Includes THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL ARIEL and SHADOWS IN PARADISE

Box set containing the three films in Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki’s ‘workers trilogy’. With low-key acting, minimal dialogue and humour so deadpan it almost doesn’t qualify as humour at all, Kaurismaki tells simple, devastating stories of loss, love, compassion and the urge to escape. ‘Shadows in Paradise’ (1986) is Kaurismaki’s first collaboration with Kati Outinen, the actress whose face has become emblematic of his cinema. Dustman Nikander (Matti Pellonpaa) strikes up a platonic relationship with Ilona (Outinen), a cashier in a Helsinki supermarket. In the existential classic ‘Ariel’ (1987), Taisto (Turo Pajala) drives his white Cadillac through snow-strewn Finland, looking for love. ‘The Match Factory Girl’ (1990) tells the tale of a modern-day Cinderella – the down-at-heel Iris (Outinen), who works on a factory assembly line.

Cult Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurism”ki is internationally renowned for his distinctively spare and deadpan character studies of society’s also-rans. This three disc set contains his acclaimed Underdog Trilogy which finds Kaurism”ki at the height of his sardonic humanist powers. Set Comprises: Shadows in Paradise (1986): Kaurism”ki regulars Matti Pellonp”” and Kati Outinen star in this offbeat yet remarkably touching romantic comedy. Pellonp”” plays Nikander a rubbish collector and wouldbe entrepreneur who finds his plans for success dashed with the unexpected death of his business associate. Whilst searching for a job he meets Ilona (Outinen) a down-on- her luck cashier in a local supermarket and falteringly a bond begins to develop between them. Ariel (1988): Acclaimed as one of Kaurism”ki’s most accomplished early films ‘Ariel’ follows the exploits of the laconic Taisto a newly-unemployed Lapland miner who sets off in a Cadillac convertible for a fresh start in Helsinki. Joined in his odyssey by meter maid Irmeli and her young son Taitso’s plans take a series of unexpected turns in this dryly comic and satirical melange of road movie and film noir. The Match Factory Girl (1990): This blackly comic minimalist masterpiece stars Kati Outinen as Iiris a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job on a match factory production line. She dreams of finding love at the local dancehall but her attempts are constantly foiled by her selfish parents and the callous behaviour of would-be suitors. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father Iiris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.