Fallen Leaves
Pretty much my platonic ideal of “romantic comedy”; <PERSON> pairs his mastery of ethnographic working-class detail with a genuinely hilarious (and moving!) love story, beautifully photographed (one could describe the aesthetic here as “Neorealist <PERSON>”) and filled with curiously memorable conversations and side characters…really loved this one, pretty easily my favorite thing I’ve seen from <PERSON>. Also manages the feat of packing in an absurd amount of cinephilic in-jokes without ever feeling too cutesy. Come for the Finnish cover of “Early Morning Rain”, stay for the swooningly romantic trip to the theater to see The Dead Don’t Die, etc. 217