Another film (with A Worker's Diary, June 12) by the important director Jarva, who brought confidence and recognition to the filmmakers of his generation and whose own promising career was cut short in a fatal car crash. One Man's War is Jarva's bleakest film, but also, as Peter Cowie notes, "his most perfectly achieved." It describes the grim prospects in store for a man who, determined to escape his factory job and provide a better future for his family, sells his worldly possessions to buy a caterpillar truck and start up a small business. The family is forced into a nomadic life not of their choosing as he travels the country in search of work. Jarva tests the man's sisu as he journeys through a decaying urban landscape of hulking apartment complexes, construction sites, and joyless office towers of concrete and glass. The novelist Christer Kihlman, cited in Cowie, has written of this film's "hard, biting, paradoxical poetry."