10 Essential Movies of Aki Kaurismaki

6º – The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002)After arriving in Helsinki and being brutally beaten, a man ends up losing his memory and starts wandering aimlessly through the city. The film tells a story about the redemption of a man and the exacerbations of the human species.

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5º – I Hired a Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990)After spending several years in a job, a middle-aged man finds himself completely oblivious to the world when he is fired from the place. Disillusioned, the man decides to attempt suicide, discovering that he had no stomach for such an act. In desperation, he decides to hire a professional killer to do the job for him, not realizing that his life has left him with some positive things that may make him change his mind. ‘I Hired a Contract Killer’ is a film about the inability of Western society to deal with the loneliness and power that another individual represents in the lives of these people.

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