Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy (Eclipse #12, DVD) Lewis Teague 20 mins): dramatised instalment of

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An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father (Viggo Mortensen) commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner

Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy (Eclipse #12, DVD) Lewis Teague 20 mins): dramatised instalment ofThe poignant, deadpan films of Aki Kaurismki are pitched somewhere in the wintry nether lands between comedy and tragedy. And rarely in his body of work has the line separating those genres seemed thinner than in what is often identified as his "Proletariat Trilogy," Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl. In these three films, something like social realist farces, Kaurismki surveys the working class outcasts of his native Finland with