Cupid's arrows blaze through even Finland's gray skies in Kaurismäki's tribute to perpetually repressed, barely articulate lovers everywhere, and to the coffee, cigarettes, and vodka that fuel them. Caffeine fiend Valto heads out on a road trip with his slickly coiffed rocker friend Reino, aiming for no place in particular and in no great hurry to get there. Stuck on the down side of Finnish capitalism, they can barely function themselves, much less offer advice to the two attractive immigrants they soon encounter, the doe-eyed Estonian Tatiana and the buxom Russian Klaudia. Neither group understands a word the other is saying, but as in every romantic comedy, they speak a universal language-in this case, alcoholism. Sketching the awkward silences between humans so finely it begins to speak volumes, Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana finds its poetry in the vacuum between words, and in the comical gulf between reality and desire-Kaurismäki's aesthetic in miniature. Rarely shown because of its unusually brief running time, the film will now receive its belated Bay Area premiere.