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After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. [2] He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki.
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker.
- April 4, 1957
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker.
- January 1, 1
- 1.95 m
- Orimattila, Finland
Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957, in Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, and producer. Kaurismäki had his first encounter with film at Orimattilan Kino, the cinema in Orimattila, in the early 1960s. “I don’t remember much of the film except that Arab-looking guys were chasing Tarzan,” Kaurismäki has reminisced about ...
Aug 13, 2021 · Kaurismäki began his career in the industry when he set up a production and distribution company with his elder brother Mika, after working a number of menial jobs including dishwasher, postman and amateur film critic.
Nov 30, 2023 · M y first encounter with the work of Aki Kaurismäki was on an awkward date. Which, if you’ve seen any of the filmmaker’s work, is very on brand. It was a press screening of his typically doleful 2006 comic feature, Lights in the Dusk, in which a hangdog night watchman with no friends hooks up with a gang of criminals in a bar purely for the company.
Jul 9, 2009 · Aki began a media studies program at the University of Tampere, but soon quit “to work ‘in real life,’ taking ‘honest jobs’ such as postman and dishwasher” . In 1980, the brothers created their own film company, Villealfa, named for Godard’s Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965), and began rapidly making films ...
