The Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki will shoot his next film in Spain. After the change of scenery he did with his latest film “Le Havre” shot in the French Normandy, the director who regularly used to do his films in Finland seems to have embarked on a journey of international projects.
According to an interview Kaurismäki gave to the Finnish Film Archive’s director Peter von Bagh , the filmmaker is currently planning the second part of a trilogy that began with the film “Le Havre”, unofficially titled as the “Trilogy of port cities.” The second part of the trilogy will be shot in Spain and apparently will be titled “The Barber of Vigo”. Based on the idea that Kaurismäki trilogies usually respect the same subject, we imagine that the “Barber of Vigo” will revolve around immigration, as in “Le Havre”. Commenting on his latest film Kaurismäki said that he wanted to address the issue of immigration and sought to suggest that “in the Mediterranean Sea there are more identity documents than fish, since a large number of people throw their papers to the sea in order to not be deported back to their home land. ”
This will be the third trilogy of the director, as he had previously done two; the Workers Trilogy with “Shadows in Paradise“, “Ariel” and “The match factory Girl ” and the Trilogy of the Marginalized with “Drifting Clouds” , “The Man Without a Past” and “Lights in the Dusk”.
Anyway, according to Kaurismäki himself, the trilogy should not be understood too seriously, as he announced a few months ago to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the fact that he advertises he is doing a trilogy, is a trick to keep the interest and to set himself a goal because otherwise he wouldn’t get to finish his job because of the “slowness of his movements.” Although this Finn declares himself lazy, he is used to offer to his viewers great and labored stories that manage to move the viewer’s emotions and encourage discussion, something only good movies can do.
As for the third part of this new trilogy, Kaurismäki has said will be shot in Germany. The filmmaker says he will require a period of ten years in order to complete the trilogy after which, he announces, will retire.
