Aki Kaurismäki: Films from the Other Side of Hope
July 6–August 5, 2018
Pay a visit to Kaurismäki’s unique cinematic universe, where melodrama meets minimalism and bitter reality is tempered with deadpan comedy.
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The Other Side of Hope
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The Match Factory Girl
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Le Havre
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Drifting Clouds
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The Man Without a Past
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The Other Side of Hope
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Germany, 2017BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Friday, July 6 7 PMView DetailsA Syrian refugee adrift in Helsinki finds an unlikely ally in a sullen restaurateur in Kaurismäki’s delightfully humanizing take on immigration. “At once honest and artful, a touching and clear-sighted declaration of faith in people and in movies” (New York Times).
The Match Factory Girl
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Sweden, 1990Sunday, July 8 5:15 PMView DetailsThis grimly funny gender parable stars Kaurismäki regular Kati Outinen in “a beautiful, unsentimental performance . . . deeply realized and affecting” (New York Times). With short Those Were the Days.
La vie de Bohème
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, France, 1992Friday, July 13 8:30 PMView DetailsForget Puccini: Kaurismäki delivers his own ironic yet improbably sincere take on Henri Murger’s novel of bohemians struggling to sustain themselves, their loves, and their art in a timelessly shabby Paris.
The Man Without a Past
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, France, Germany, 2002Sunday, July 15 7 PMView DetailsAn amnesiac finds comfort with a dour Salvation Army soup-slinger in Kaurismäki’s “comedy of losers,” a look into the heart of poverty and the warmth of humanity. “At once artful, accessible . . . hilarious and humane” (New York Times).
Drifting Clouds
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, 1996Imported 35mm Print
Saturday, July 21 8:30 PMView DetailsAn unemployed couple strive to make a new life for themselves in Kaurismäki’s tale of economic dislocation painted in shades of blue. The moral of this touching, deadpan fable: “Life is short and miserable. Be merry while you can.”
The Other Side of Hope
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Germany, 2017BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Sunday, July 22 7 PMView DetailsA Syrian refugee adrift in Helsinki finds an unlikely ally in a sullen restaurateur in Kaurismäki’s delightfully humanizing take on immigration. “At once honest and artful, a touching and clear-sighted declaration of faith in people and in movies” (New York Times).
Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, France, Germany, 2011Sunday, August 5 7 PMView DetailsKaurismäki depicts the intersecting (mis)fortunes of a refugee from Gabon and a shoeshine man in the French port of the title. “A love letter to France, in particular to a half-imaginary, half-vanished realm of proletarian Frenchness” (New York Times).