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Dominican Rep. Shadows in Paradise
- Original title
- Varjoja paratiisissa
- Year
- 1986
- Running time
- 76 min.
- Country
Finland- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Matti Pellonpää
Kati Outinen
Sakari Kuosmanen
Esko Nikkari- Kylli Köngäs
- Pekka Laiho
- Jukka-Pekka Palo
- Svante Korkiakoski
- Mari Rantasila
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Drama. Romance | Romantic Comedy
- Movie Groups
- The Proletariat Trilogy
- Synopsis
- Aki Kaurismäki’s austere and oddly moving third feature – the first instalment in a “Proletarian Trilogy” that also includes Ariel and The Match Factory Girl — is a moody, melancholic, miserabilist romantic comedy that features favourite male and female leads Matti Pellonpää and Kati Outinen in fine iconic form. He’s a sad-sack garbage man; she’s a luckless cashier. The hopeless, hemming-and-hawing romance between these two members of the walking wounded runs its sputtering, inarticulate course against a backdrop of drab supermarkets, inexpensive hotels and bingo halls – and, in true, generous Kaurismäki fashion, actually manages to move towards hope and optimism (and Estonia).
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