Criterion Collection (Firm)
Language
Finnish
Description
Shadows in paradise: An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Ariel: A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.
The match factory Girl: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough...
2) Ariel
Language
Finnish
Description
A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.
Series
Criterion collection volume 922
Language
Finnish
Description
"This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo-- and the paths...