Juha
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
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"Juha is the last silent film of the 20th century. And a truly great one, I might add. Adapting a Finnish literary classic (already brought to the screen three times), Scandinavian master Aki Kaurismäki (whose movies have always had limited dialogue, mind) tells a cruel, touching story of love, loss and revenge. Weirdly for a Kaurismäki movie, Juha seems to open on a happy note: we witness the everyday life of the eponymous farmer (a never better Sakari Kuosmanen) and his wife Marja (the consistently astounding Kati Outinen). The two don't lead the easiest of lives, but somehow they manag..."
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Aki Kaurismäki decided to make this film without sound when he realized André Wilms, who was his first and only choice for the role of Shemeikka, didn't speak any Finnish.
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A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.