From acclaimed director Mika Kaurismaki comes full-length feature The Liar and short film Jackpot 2. The Liar (1981): Young drifter Ville Alfa travels around Helsinki trying to make money by constant lying. Jackpot 2 (1982): A short film where three young people two boys and a girl meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
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Award-winning black comedy co-written by and starring Aki Kaurismaki and directed by his brother Mika. Ville Alfa (Kaurismaki) is a hyperactive, would-be intellectual who can't stop making things up. His fabrications have worked for him so far - he's seduced girls and borrowed large sums of money from friends, family and total strangers. But when this pathological compulsion leads him to lie about the death of his brother, it's a fib too far. Will the young rogue ever be able to curb his deceitful tongue?
THE LIAR tells the story of Ville Alfa, a young drifter with a penchant for lying. These half-truths usually work to his advantage, allowing him to seduce girls and sponge money off friends, family, and total strangers. But he takes things too far when he lies about the death of his brother...
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