A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT

In the aftermath of a personal crisis, unable to manage the weight of expectations placed upon him, 29-years-old Pauli, a talented and successful flutist, returns to his family home in a small town in Finland. There, almost unwillingly, he connects with a group of young musicians, pariahs in the suffocating, provincial environment, who, fueled by wonderful madness, compose experimental music through improvisation. The debut of Finnish filmmaker Lauri-Matti Parppei, as well as according to The Guardian “one of the most interesting films in this year’s Cannes Film Festival,” A Light That Never Goes Out unfolds an exquisite, liberating parable on the necessity of rejecting the false self and embracing weakness, fragility, and our authentic nature. Balancing delicately between drama and bizarre roundabout humor, the film leads both its main character and the audience into the inextinguishable, comforting glow of a purifying fire, from which one is reborn different, young, and open to embracing life.