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‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Deadpan Comedy Brings Heart and Wit to a Tale of Lost Souls

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nothing in common.)“Fallen Leaves” is the first movie Kaurismaki has made since 2017’s “The Other Side of Hope” – which was, he said at the time, the last movie he would ever make.

And if it’s odd that it’s the first movie after his last movie, the Cannes program says that it’s also the fourth part of a working-class trilogy (“Shadows in Paradise,” “Ariel” and “The Match Factory”) that he made three decades ago.

Ansa (Alma Pöysti) works in a supermarket, at least until she’s fired for taking home a sandwich with an expired sell-by date.

Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) is a construction worker who keeps getting canned for drinking on the job. Their lives are desultory in the extreme, as they trudge through a Helsinki landscape littered with lost souls with not much to look forward to beyond the nightly trip to the bar.The men at the center of the film, for the most part, stand stiffly, smoke cigarettes with a studied slouch and seem as if they’re all unknowingly auditioning for a Jean-Pierre Melville movie; the women are equally expressionless, their faces as blank as their opportunities.

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