Aki Kaurismäki

What makes a Aki Kaurismäki film a Aki Kaurismäki film

Across 10 films, they run far less energy, much more melancholy and much less playfulness than films in general. Their films resemble each other far more than any 10 films picked at random would, which is what makes one recognisable before anybody says who directed it.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.