Beautifully shot film! Great music!
Love the scene in the car where Tatjana and her friend ask Reino and Valto if they can tell something about themselves. The camera stays on Tajtana in the back seat, and no answer is being returned from the front seats. All you can here is loud and tough rock'n'roll-music. Ha ha ha, very amusing!
Kaurismäki is great!
a rare and beautiful and honest movie full of unspoken love and insight and great coffee cars and landscapes
kaurismaki : there is no one like him
Finally saw this film and I love it, too!
Things or scenes I love:
How the music really goes with the scenes, it's almost monotone, more ambient than rock and roll normally is presented.
First scene where Valto goes to the baari and orders two coffees. Maybe they don't give refills, but what coffee shop never does (besides fancy frappuccinolattespresso places)? I like how it's almost snuck in there to show his coffee addiction... they don't bash the humor over your head. I like the oddity of having Valto be a coffee addict.
The scene towards the end where the girls buy tea for the guys, because of the barkeep. He puffs the entire scene -- doesn't put down his cigarette long enough to grab the food or even speak to the ladies - yuk! Then he tosses out the gang and insults them, nearly getting himself tossed. (I'm heavily biased in this instance: The barkeep is played by Mauri Sumén, one of my favorite people in the world... swoon!! Such a beautiful man, and such a talent.)
Oh, and at the beginning, I love the way the camera kinda lingers on Valto's mother -- the shot gives you this almost backstory of her, she has a kind of glamour and was probably quite glamourous in her day, but now lives a life of sewing, and browbeating her adult son.