This is a simple story of boy meets girl, girl meets boy, with little, and often unimportant and dry, dialogue between the main characters. Yet somehow it had a lasting effect on me. Maybe the visuals wich I found really beautiful and aesthetic in a retro-like style. This is the first movie I see by Aki Kaurismaki and something tells me it's not going to be the last. While the story is simple, the delivery is not. For instance, the deadpan delivery of the actors is something I found interesting and at times funny. Interesting because other than Yorgos Lanthimos I know of no one who did this. Not only the delivery of the dialogue, but the content of the dialogue itself is something out of the ordinary. While most romcoms are full of conversations where the loved ones try to impress the other part and so on, here it is almost like the opposite. The dialogues are absolutely dry, dull, common, etc. And I don't say it in a bad way because at least in this movie it works. Anyway, it is worth a watch in my opinion.
Review of Fallen Leaves
