Fallen Leaves<\/strong>, a wonderful romantic comedy-drama from Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki (Le Havre, The Match Factory Girl), is airing on TV tonight (Saturday, 8 August).<\/p>\nReleased in cinemas in 2023, the movie is set in modern-day Helsinki. The story follows Ansa (Alma P\u00f6ysti), a woman who works on a zero-hour contract at a supermarket stacking shelves, and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen), a man who is a sandblaster on a construction site.<\/p>\n
Both lonely and depressed, the pair meet by chance in a local karaoke bar, where they instantly take a shine to one another. The pair’s courtship, however, is beset by numerous obstacles, including lost phone numbers, workplace problems, and lifestyle clashes.<\/p>\n
Though only 81 minutes long and telling a simple ‘will they, won’t they’ story, Fallen Leaves is unforgettable.<\/p>\n
Watch the trailer for Fallen Leaves right here:<\/p>\n
You rarely see working-class people and their struggles captured with such care and sympathy on screen. It’s a tale of two souls worn down by the world, whose unexpected romance reminds them of life’s pleasures.<\/p>\n
That said, the film – unlike many of its Hollywood counterparts – is also about how life is rarely tidy and that love isn’t without its challenges.<\/p>\n
Directed and acted in a way that finds a dry humour in the mundane and melancholy, Fallen Leaves proved to be a real crowdpleaser.<\/p>\n
Not only was it a box office hit, but the comedy-drama was also nominated for two Golden Globes: Best Picture \u2013 Non-English Language and Best Actress in a Motion Picture \u2013 Comedy or Musical for Alma P\u00f6ysti.<\/p>\n
Fallen Leaves is airing on TV tonight\/tomorrow morning on BBC Two at 12.50am<\/strong>. It’s also available to stream on the service Mubi.<\/p>\nFor JOE’s list of the other movies on TV tonight, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only 81 minutes long, the film was nominated for two Golden Globes and has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[265075,265076,265077,265078,18,117,19,17,265079,826,128],"class_list":["post-627982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-best-films-of-the-2020s","tag-best-films-of-the-decade","tag-best-movies-of-the-2020s","tag-best-movies-of-the-decade","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies-on-tv","tag-streaming","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117063242823558770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}