I accidentally watched Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's "A Shadow in Paradise" and found that I liked the tone of his films so much. So I watched several of his films in the past few days, "Crime and Punishment", "The Story of the Leningrad Cowboy", and this "Flying Clouds". I have to say that Aki is one of the few directors I have the most appetite for.
Aki and Rohmer, who I like, have one thing in common, that is, their films are very tense and addicting, and they are by no means boring. Don't make empty abstract theories, focus on the real life, and the joys and sorrows in reality.
They are far more concerned with the human mind than the body. Like Rohmer, Akey rejects naked sexual depictions, does not think that real men and women are easy to have sex, and believes that there are more serious things between men and women than sex.
Real life seems to be the same all over the world.
Although "Crime and Punishment" is also good, the plot design is a bit unreasonable. I don't really like "The Cowboys of Leningrad", I think if I watch this for the first time, maybe I won't watch any of his other films. I like "Lonely Shadow in Paradise" and "The World in Floating Clouds", the kind of cruelty and warmth that is difficult for other directors to achieve.
His films are full of humanity.
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