Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Tossed around by the forces of fate

At first, they decided to go with the laconic Aki Kaurismäki route. It backfires. Then it gets weird, just for the sake of being weird. Backfires. The story of a woodcutter who loses practically everything he owns, is not particularly well delivered.

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