Kaurismäki's latest film to run for top prize at 2006 Cannes Film Festival

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Aki Kaurismäki's fifteenth full-length movie Laitakaupungin valot (Lights in the Dusk) has been chosen as one of this year's nominees for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
      Also running for the top prize are Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Pedro Almodóvar's Volver, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, and Nanni Moretti's The Caiman, among others.
     
The international première of Kaurismäki's Laitakaupungin valot will be in Cannes. The rights of the movie have already been sold to 13 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the Nordic countries. The German firm Match Factory GmbH is in charge of the film's international distribution.
      Laitakaupungin valot, which opened in Finland on February 3rd, stars Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Ilkka Koivula, and Maria Heiskanen.
      Laitakaupungin valot completes the trilogy started ten years ago with Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Drifting Clouds). The success of this picture was followed up by Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past), the winner of the Grand Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
     
The 2006 Cannes Film Festival will be held on May 17th to 28th. Chinese director Wong Kar Wai will be the President of the Feature Films Jury.
      The Festival will open with the Hollywood working of Dan Brown's controversial novel The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard.


Previously in HS International Edition:
  Aki Kaurismäki: "Where have all those years gone?" (31.1.2006)

Links:
  Internet Movie Base: Aki Kaurismäki
  Cannes Film Festival

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