A Must-See Comedy About Miserable People Looking for Love
Fallen Leaves, which follows two people trying to survive the modern world, is one of the year’s best films.
Ansa, the taciturn protagonist of , lives a rather gloomy existence. She works at a supermarket in Helsinki, Finland, stocking shelves and monotonously pricing items under a security guard’s brooding eye. She trudges home every night to a small apartment, listening to bleak radio reports about the Russia-Ukraine war just across the border. In the film’s opening scene, she microwaves a dinner she takes home from work, gives it one look, and throws
