FILM NOTE: Finland’s delicate, deep and droll ‘Fallen Leaves’ up for Oscar
Dec
2
2023
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A very affecting movie is Finland’s official entry for Best International Feature at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards, FALLEN LEAVES. In his seventeenth feature film, Director/Auteur Aki Kaurismäki, a master of distanced and deadpanned but ultimately humanistic storytelling, shines a light on working-class people struggling to live with dignity in a world set up to ...