AKİ & KATİ December 3–18, 2011

İstanbul Modern Cinema is screening nine films in which Aki Kaurismäki, one of the most powerful directors of Finnish cinema, has worked with actress Kati Outinen. Their collaboration started in 1986 with Shadows in Paradise, and continued with, among others, The Man without a Past which earned Outinen the “Best Actress” award in Cannes. This collaboration still continues today the latest being Le Havre, the Finnish entry for the 2012 Academy Awards.

Ranging from a Shakespeare adaptation to portraits of the proletariat, the film selection probes deeply into the cinema of Kaurismäki; while displaying his love for American film noir and the French New Wave, the selection takes a closer look at his nihilistic stance, the “melancholy of cafeterias,” his fairytale-like tones, and his loser and immature protagonists.

Kati Outinen will attend the screening of Le Havre on Saturday, December 3.