Ariel (Film)

Rauli Somerjoki

  • Turo Pajala: Taisto Olavi Kasurinen
  • Susanna Haavisto: Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja
  • Matti Pellonpää: Mikkonen
  • EETO Hilkamo: Riku
  • Erkki Pajala: miners

Ariel, also known as Ariel - Burned down in Helsinki, is a feature film by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki from the year 1988.

He is the second part of its "proletarian trilogy" (Finnish Työläis - trilogia ), which also includes shadows in paradise ( Varjoja paratiisissa, 1986) and The Girl of the Match Factory ( Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö, 1990) belong.

Action

In northern Finland, a mine is closed. This Taisto Kasurinen is unemployed, like his colleagues. One of them gives him his car keys and goes to the toilet, where he shoots himself. Taisto makes with the car, a convertible, the Finnish winter with the top down - it can not find the button - on the way to Helsinki to start a new life. There he falls in love with the single Irmeli that comes with multiple jobs just to make ends meet with difficulty.

Taistos looking for a job fails, its accommodation is canceled him and finally he lands still in jail because he met his tormentor and this together suggests. Together with his cellmate Mikkonen he plans an outbreak and escape from Finland. To raise money for false passports for herself and her son Irmeli Riko, attacked the two, albeit clumsy, yet success a bank. As counterfeiters require more money than originally agreed upon, there will be a confrontation, is mortally wounded at the Mikkonen. Then Taisto shoots the gangster. The film ends at the port of Helsinki, where Taisto, Irmeli and Riku translate into a boat to ferry Ariel.

Criticism

According filmdienst the film was " [v ] oller poetry, concise and straightforward told and at the same time committed to a relentless realism in the description of social conditions. " Epd film said: " Ariel ties in especially to Bresson's economy of representation. There's no picture, especially not a word too much. Kaurismäki's fifth feature film is a masterpiece laconic narrative style. "

Awards

Moscow International Film Festival, 1989

  • FIPRESCI Prize for Aki Kaurismäki
  • Golden St. George for leading actor Turo Pajala

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1991

  • Award in the category Best Foreign Language Film
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