Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki is again in competitors for the Cannes Film Festival’s high prize after greater than a decade together with his twentieth movie, “Fallen Leaves,” which premiered on Monday. Under a sweltering afternoon solar, Kaurismaki, 66, was joined on the purple carpet by his lead actors Alma Poysti and Jussi Vatanen. Festival employees needed to persuade Kaurismaki to pose for photographers as he tried to energy via the purple carpet.

“Fallen Leaves” is a follow-up to Kaurismaki’s Proletariat Trilogy, coming greater than three a long time after the 1986 movie “Shadows in Paradise”, 1988’s “Ariel” and “The Match Factory Girl”, which was launched in 1990. Written and directed by Kaurismaki, “Fallen Leaves” is his first characteristic in six years. The tragicomedy follows the budding romance between a quiet younger girl, Ansa (Poysti) and Vatanen’s heavy-drinking sandblaster, whose first title is rarely revealed.

As they navigate blue-collar jobs and zero-hour contracts, an opportunity assembly in a karaoke bar brings the 2 lonely characters collectively, solely to be pulled aside once more. Set to the soundtrack of stories stories concerning the newest developments within the warfare in Ukraine and Finnish variations of yesteryear hits similar to “Mambo Italiano”, the movie follows the twosome’s efforts to forge a greater life for themselves.

It options Kaurismaki’s trademark deadpan dialogue and references to his cinematic influences. “Fallen Leaves” is Kaurismaki’s fifth competitors title at Cannes. His final Palme d’Or contender was “Le Havre” in 2011.

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