“It felt like this bloody world needed some love stories now,” Fallen Leaves director Aki Kaurismäki said of his Palme d’Or contender this afternoon.
With war still raging in Ukraine, the Finnish auteur, who does not mince his words, focused several times on themes of love as an antidote to global conflict.
The movie features clips of the Ukraine War in radio broadcasts and Kaurismäki said he “couldn’t have done any film during the war without commenting somehow, so I commented with radio.” “It felt like this bloody world needed some love stories now, but it doesn’t matter what we do in Finland,” he added.
Documenting the war in his movie was important so people can “watch it and understand how cruel and stupid” the conflict was years down the line, he added.
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