Book review|Kaurismäki’s long debut is one of the only films whose birth journey requires its own nonfiction book, and it turned out to be a moving one.
Nonfiction book
Mikko Mattila and Raija Talvio: Worthless. The most important thing is to leave. Aviator. 188 pp.
Burgundy The Volga station wagon cools across Finland, because the big-hearted adjuster Manne Ojaniemi (Matti Pellonpää) must survive the crime boss Hagström (Esko Nikkari). Manne’s free flea-market-style friends include the pleasant Harri (Juuso Hirvikangassecretive Veera (Pirkko Hämäläinen) and intellectual Ville (Aki Kaurismäki).
Worthless completed What and Aki Kaurismäki as a collaboration in 1982. A book has now been published about the film, where the atmosphere is absolutely on the roof.
Readers own thoughts at the same time Anssi Tikanmäki, who died on June 4. The contribution of Tikanmäki, a first-time film composer, is already inescapable Worthless in the entrance, peppered with a rock band Finland pace aerial photos of Helsinki.
In the book, Tikanmäki also opens up his views on, for example, things set to music Morricone– shades.
The work Worthless. The most important thing is to leave assembled Worthless a current professional who worked as a surgical assistant Raija Winter and still photographer of the classic Mikko Mattila.
Director Mika Kaurismäki (left) with partners at Finlayson’s villa in Tampere.
Of the Kaurismäki brothers, only the director-writer Mika is in the voice this time. Writer-assistant director Aki Kaurismäki’s new lines from the making are not available.
The book doesn’t mention the reason, but the solution turns out to be more dynamic than expected.
Dozens in their stories, the interviewees convey specifically what kind of collective creative effort supported the project.
There was a shared feeling that new kinds of films are needed and that they are being made here. With that inspiration, we progressed in interesting locations from Karvia in Satakunta through the wooden Kaupunginhotelli in Kuopio to the Tulikettu Hotel in Sotkamo.
The now deceased Pauli Pentti (left) said in the Arvottomat book that a completely new approach to high and alternative culture was found. Here it is being searched from Hämeenkatu in Tampere.
The feeling is conveyed in a fantastic way. Talvio skillfully builds the plot of the book from quotes. Mattila remembers the simultaneity of concentration and lightness.
The nature of the shooting locations and the use of Badding & Agents and tango pump Rauli-Sakari & Karhukopla directly gave “Akilandia” the stepping stones.
The fusion of Kaurismäke’s speaking style still rises above everything else in the reminiscences.
It is said that the members of the work group all went into a certain mode in their words in an instant. For example Aila Pervonsuon according to him, the “very abnormal” way of speaking caught on quickly.
Juuso Hirvikangas has a supporting role, but also Aki’s friend from Kankaanpää high school. According to Hirvikanga, the dialogue writer Aki’s habit was already in school:
“We used to quote from books, from anywhere About bohemian life. The style of speech was like that, and we competed to see who was the smartest.”
On the filming tour, we listened as a kind of rite of passage Mona Caritas.
The book covers a lot, but it could also be more specific when telling about taking photos. How many rolls of film did Mikko Mattila burn for documentation? What were the guys like when they posed for the promotional pictures of the crime road movie with an oblique humor?
Matti Pellonpää’s relationship with the film camera was exceptionally unobstructed. His contact with the camera was supported by the fact that, in addition to his acting papers, Pellonpää had been studying cinematography at the University of the Arts since 1980.
Hengari Pantse Syrjä (left), Pirkko Hämäläinen and Juuso Hirvikangas following the filming in which Pellonpää crashes through the roadblock. Pirkko and Juuso started dating during close filming weeks.
Worthless-many previously unused photos in the book record the passionate jump into real action.
The text side the gems include how the Kaurismäki duo formulated their intentions in the support application for their first feature film:
“That’s why Worthless the story is the way it is because we think it has been a long time tradition of adventure films to also visit Finnish cinema.”
“We almost meant to buy you flowers,” Kaurismäet said to Pirkko Hämäläinen at the evening of the invited guests.
According to the application forms, “mythical Finnish melancholy” would also be essential in the project.
They knew what they were doing. Although Worthless at the same time, it’s like a young man running around.
Illuminator Heikki Ortamo describes: “Fellini has sometimes said that the film already exists somewhere and then it starts making itself. In that movie, it came true. The film crew not only filmed something that was the object of the filming, but they were right inside it.”
When will this happen again? In what format?
Special screening of the film Arvottomat at the Sodankylä film festival on Friday 14 June. at 12:30 p.m. A big tent.
Väyry (Asmo Hurula) of the criminal side tortures the main character Manne.
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