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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
February 3, 20171h 41mFI
7.0
355 votes
Overview
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Director
Aki KaurismäkiWriter
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Status
Released
Original Language
Arabic
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$1.7M
Production Companies
ZDFBufoSputnik
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5.0In Aki Kaurismäki's 2016 film <i>Toivon tuolla puelella</i> ("The Other Side of Hope"), the Finnish auteur continues a theme he explored in <i>Le Havre</i> from five years earlier: refugees fleeing to Europe and forced to survive when heartless officials and some locals are against them. While that earlier film was shot in the comparatively exotic setting of the eponymous French port, <i>Toivon tuolla puelella</i> returns to Kaurismäki's familiar stomping grounds of downtown Helsinki. The film consists of two converging plotlines. In one, the aging salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen, a lon…
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8.0Europe "welcomes" war refugees. Gallery of portraits in Tati-style sets, and a call to order, always in progress. Uplifting.