What does Nordic cinema look like? The world-renowned Finnish film maestro Aki Korismaki may be able to try to answer this question with his own work. His works often start from small people, refract the hardships of life in a black and humorous way, and express their concern for the low-level people. Aki Korismachi's work began to gain international attention in the late 1980s and has since grown into a unique film master.
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From November 13th to 27th, the Shanghai Art Film Alliance will hold the "Aki Korismachi Film Retrospective Exhibition", which will showcase the director's 12 feature films, trace his creative origins and internationally renowned masterpieces, delve into his creative process, explore different aspects of Nordic film styles, and enrich the big-screen experience of Shanghai audiences.
Films screened at this retrospective of Aki Korismachi's films include:
Aki Kaurismäki's feature film debut, Crime and Punishment based on Dostoevsky's tome of the same name; "The LoneLy Shadow of Heaven", one of the "proletarian trilogies", which tells the story of garbage workers bravely chasing the road of love; the second part of the "Proletarian Trilogy", "Liftoff", which tells the miners' crazy life path due to an unjust case; the internationally acclaimed grotesque musical comedy "Leningrad Cowboy March"; starring the famous French film star Jean-Pierre Lyod, The black comedy "I Hired a Professional Killer", which was shortlisted for the main competition section of the Venice Film Festival; the tragic comedy "Bohemian Life", which is based on the novel of French novelist Henri Mog, which tells the story of three fallen artists who have wandered to Paris and won the Berlin Film Festival Fibisi Film Critics Award and the New Film Forum Best Film Award; "Leningrad Cowboys" interesting sequel to "Leningrad Cowboys Ride Moses"; "Floating Clouds" about unemployed couples starting a business again and winning the Cannes Film Festival Catholic Humanitarian Award - Special Mention Award The man without a past, which tells the story of the amnesiac man's re-life, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Best Actress Award, and the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award; the crime work "Twilight", which tells the story of the crime work "Twilight", which is repeatedly attacked by the security guards by society but still has hope for life; the refugee-themed comedy "Le Havre", which debuts with french rock superstar Bob Bob Jr., who won the Fabisi Film Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award- Special Mention Award; tells the story of Syrian refugees struggling to survive in Finland with the help of well-meaning people 2. "The Other Side of Hope", which won the Best Director Award at the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Film Masters Exhibition is one of the most attractive screening brands of The Shanghai Art Film Alliance, and has previously held many screenings such as Kubrick Retrospective Exhibition, Polanski Retrospective Exhibition, Herzog Retrospective Exhibition, Japanese Film Master Exhibition, French Film Master Exhibition, Russian Film Master Exhibition and so on, which are deeply loved by the audience. It is worth mentioning that the films screened in this master exhibition are all newly produced Chinese embedded subtitles. (Chief reporter of Xinmin Evening News, Sun Jiayin)