A forlorn cowboy wanders the streets of a big city with his donkey, looking for somewhere to put his camping cooker and tormented heart… Lauri Timonen: “The Paris of Bohemian Life inspired Aki Kaurismäki (b. 1957) to make his most beautiful Leningrad Cowboys film, Those Were the Days, where melancholia turns sublime and a fragile chance for love flickers in the night for a flee...