HAMLET GOES BUSINESS / CALAMARI UNION (1987)

AKI KAURISMAKI

Drama Comedy Recommended Will's Stamp of Approval

Cast

PIRKKA-PEKKA PETELIUS ESKO SALMINEN KATI OUTINEN ELINA SALO ESKO NIKKARI TIMO ERANKO KARI HEISKANEN ASMO HURULA SAKKE JAVENPAA SAKARI KUOSMANEN DAVE LINDHOLM

Plot

Hamlet Goes Business Kaurismaki reworks Shakespeare in his own inimitable style; turning Hamlet into a hard-boiled B-movie film noir set in modern day Finland. Farcical plotting and pure 1940's melodrama is kept afloat by Kaurismaki's characteristic dead-pan humour and intelligent dialogue.