Lights in the Dusk Page #2

Synopsis: Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistenin. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds. She's in league with a crook who's planning a jewel robbery, and Koistenin is their patsy. Will he ever wise up?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Aki Kaurismäki
Production: Strand Releasing
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
Year:
2006
78 min
137 Views


to that wimp.

Not for long now.

In fact, you can start to cool it off.

Did you get the codes?

Want to go somewhere

for the weekend?

Paris, Rome - wherever.

You decide. All cities are the same.

Come here.

Take one. They're fresh.

The roast's in the oven.

Nice place.

It's just temporary.

It's just temporary.

Koistinen...

You want to end this?

My mother's ill. I must travel.

When?

Right now.

I'll call you.

You won't see a tear

Though my heart is crying

Nor the sad yearning

Because you went away.

One day my hand will wipe

The tears from my eyes

Only tomorrow

Can make me forget.

I've given you my heart

Everything I have

While you brought me

Only sorrows of the soul...

Wait. I'll lock up and take you home.

Well, Koistinen. Got laid lately?

Hands off.

Wait. We must talk.

- What about?

Not here, let's go somewhere.

You have a car?

Koistinen signing off.

Get me a glass of water.

Too crowdy here.

Let's go and talk in the car.

Why're those monitors dark?

The jeweller's.

They're not dark.

They've been sprayed.

Whose round is it?

- Koistinen's.

He signed off but never

returned the keys.

I'm going there.

Send a couple of guys over.

So you can't remember why

you were at a service station -

on the other side of the town

in the middle of your shift?

I went there to fill the tank up.

The assistant says

you did not buy gas -

but you had company at first.

- I was alone.

And the keys?

- I don't know.

I fell asleep, I'd been drinking.

There was no alcohol in your blood.

I was tired.

Who do you protect?

The break-in was done

using your code and keys.

I don't know anything

about any robberies.

You'll be convicted for it, however.

And you alone unless you co-operate.

I was alone.

I fell asleep, lost the keys.

Name your accomplices.

They've left you to face

the rap alone.

You've been used.

I don't know anybody.

Lock him up.

You'll be released for lack of proof.

Don't get too happy.

You'll be caught and convicted.

Shove off.

Hi.

ROBBERS TAKE:

GUARD SUSPECTED OF COMPLICITY

Four and ninety.

Get going.

Why this, too?

- You know me.

I take everything

to its logical conclusion.

Too late to regret,

you're already involved.

I came to explain. To apologize.

I see.

You don't want to listen.

No.

I'm sure you must go again.

He'll talk. He'll tell them about me.

Koistinen will never betray you.

He's loyal as a dog,

a sentimental fool.

My genius lies in understanding that.

Go and make the call.

Take him away.

The accused,

Seppo Ilmari Koistinen -

will now rise to hear his sentence.

The court passes

the following sentence:

Seppo Ilmari Koistinen

will be sentenced -

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Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑurismæki] ( listen); born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish screenwriter and film director. He is described as Finland’s best-known film director. more…

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