Fallen Leaves

Award-winning Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki landed yet another Palme d'Or nomination, and the Jury Prize, at Cannes with this comedic drama of two people on the lower end of the economic spectrum who cross paths.

The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of the welfare state.

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