Lights in the Dusk

Name: Lights in the Dusk
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: June 13, 2007
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 57

2007

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: June 13, 2007

Summary: Lights in the Dusk concludes the trilogy began by "Drifting Clouds" and "The Man Without a Past." Where the trilogy's first film was about unemployment and the second about homelessness, this final installment is about loneliness. (Strand Releasing)

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Runtime: 78 min

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

There's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

If you're new to Kaurismaki, the film will make you a fan. If you've seen everything else he's ever done, the comedy will confirm your commitment. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

It's a handsome production, and a pleasure to watch. With a shadowy palette and a set design reminiscent of Edward Hopper's nocturnes, a soundtrack hearkening back to the sounds of vintage rock 'n' roll, and a cast of characters straight out of a James M. Cain novel. Read full review

Kevin Crust

There's a dry humor underlying the absurdity of Koistinen's experience. When things cannot possibly get worse, they do. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Lights in the Dusk finds veteran Finnish helmer Aki Kaurismaki treading water with an amiable but very undercooked noirish fable about a security guard done wrong by a femme fatale. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

So stylized and slow-moving (even at a spare 75 minutes) that you may have trouble adapting to its hypnotic rhythms -- but if you can, there are sumptuous visual rewards to be found, plus the faintest emotional uptick right at the end. Read full review

Nathan Lee

Lights in the Dusk derives scant excitement from its melodramatic plot, which satisfies a dismal, ineluctable formula with stultifying efficiency. Nor is it enlivened by the airless performances. Read full review

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