http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/movies/13dusk.html
"Timo Salminen's exquisite cinematography renders Helsinki a place of endless sadness, in which the sun, grazing the horizon far to the south, casts snaking shadows on the streets, and the warehouses and factories around the harbor suggest a labyrinthine fortress of gloom. The entire city seems peopled with cold, unsmiling sadists like the loan officer, who will seize any opportunity to step on those below them on the social ladder. The most sympathetic figure, Aila (Maria Heiskanen), is a plain young woman, as isolated as Koistinen, who operates a mobile food van near his shabby apartment. In their conversations she subtly indicates her longing for him, but he doesn't notice. When he shows up drunk at the van one evening, she patiently helps him home. Under her poker-faced stoicism is the rarest quality to be found in Helsinki: a reservoir of kindness."
