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• The Aki Kaurismaki Collection - Vol. 3 | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-50.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Aki Kaurism''ki s deadpan ironic and idiosyncratic films have established him as one of modern European cinema's most accomplished filmmakers. This box set presents three of his remarkable and highly acclaimed features. Crime and Punishment: Kaurism''ki s first feature follows the descent into crime of Rahikainen a slaughterhouse worker and former law student who murders a businessman and then begins a tense game of cat and mouse with the police. Effectively updating Dostoevsky s great novel to 1980s Helsinki this remarkably assured debut offers a sharp critique of Finnish society. Calamari Union: A group of men all bar one called Frank abandon their downtrodden neighbourhood in search of Eira a near mythical district across town that promises a better life. Kaurism''ki s second features details their misadventures along the way with deadpan humour and rock and roll attitude. Hamlet Goes Buisness: In this wicked and hilarious satire of the corporate world Kaurism''ki liberally updates Shakespeare s tragedy as a hard-boiled noir B-movie. Finnish comic Pirkka-Pekka Petelius plays an irresponsible playboy who finds himself involved in a vicious boardroom power struggle with his uncle who plans to sell off his company s assets in order to corner the market on Swedish rubber ducks. La Vie de Boh''me: Freely adapted from Henri Murger s 1851 novel this is Kaurism''ki s highly individual take on the story of three bohemian artists a poet a painter and a composer set in a timeless Paris. Shifting between heartbreaking drama and black humour the fine cast features cameos from Jean-Pierre L''aud Sam Fuller and Louis Malle.

• The Aki Kaurismäki Collection | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £57.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (25.00%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Included Titles: Crime And Punishment Calamari Union Shadows In Paradise Drifting Clouds Oo Aina Ihminen Hamlet Goes Business La Vie Boheme Ariel Match Factory Girl Valimo Leningrad Cowboys Lenigrad Cowboys Go America Total Balalaika Show Take Care Of You Scarf Tatjana Juha The Man Without A Past The Dusk La Havre The Other Side Of Hope Lights In Included Shorts: These Boots Those Were The Days Thru The Wire Rocky IV Rich Little Bitch Dogs Have No Hell Valim

• Aki Kaurismaki Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £25.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (17.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Cult Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurism''ki is internationally renowned for his distinctively spare and deadpan character studies of society's also-rans. This three disc set contains his acclaimed Underdog Trilogy which finds Kaurism''ki at the height of his sardonic humanist powers. Set Comprises: Shadows in Paradise (1986): Kaurism''ki regulars Matti Pellonp'''' and Kati Outinen star in this offbeat yet remarkably touching romantic comedy. Pellonp'''' plays Nikander a rubbish collector and wouldbe entrepreneur who finds his plans for success dashed with the unexpected death of his business associate. Whilst searching for a job he meets Ilona (Outinen) a down-on- her luck cashier in a local supermarket and falteringly a bond begins to develop between them. Ariel (1988): Acclaimed as one of Kaurism''ki's most accomplished early films 'Ariel' follows the exploits of the laconic Taisto a newly-unemployed Lapland miner who sets off in a Cadillac convertible for a fresh start in Helsinki. Joined in his odyssey by meter maid Irmeli and her young son Taitso's plans take a series of unexpected turns in this dryly comic and satirical melange of road movie and film noir. The Match Factory Girl (1990): This blackly comic minimalist masterpiece stars Kati Outinen as Iiris a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job on a match factory production line. She dreams of finding love at the local dancehall but her attempts are constantly foiled by her selfish parents and the callous behaviour of would-be suitors. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father Iiris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.