The other side of hope film

For a person driven into a corner, both have their merits. Despite the rather trite title, the other side of hope is an amiable story of two very different paths crossing in helsinki. The official showtimes destination brought to you by curzon artificial eye. Toivon tuolla puolen is a 2017 finnish comedydrama film written, produced, and directed by aki kaurismaki. Toivon tuolla puolen is a 2017 finnish comedy drama film written, produced, and directed by aki kaurismaki. The other side of hope explores the refugee experience without sappy sentimentality globe and mail. While the conclusion to the other side of hope is openended, kaurismaki unashamedly believes in brotherhood, and among other things his film celebrates people who do the right thing without making a big deal about it. This widely acclaimed film from soviet director elem klimov is a stunning, sensesshattering plunge. The other side of hope toivon tuolla puolen follows two such human pinballs on their independent trajectories as they accidentally cross paths. As deadpan as the best of the directors work, and with a deep well of empathy for its downbutnotout characters many of them played by members of kaurismakis everreliable stock company, the other side of hope is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference. The other side of hope toivon tuolla puolen stadtkino wien. By devika girish in the novemberdecember 2017 issue. A pokerplaying restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to finland.

It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the french port city le havre. Footage from the press conference for the film s premiere at the 2017 berlin international film festival, featuring kaurismaki, haji, and actor sakari kuosmanen. The other side of hope toivon tuolla puolen 2017 rotten. For a moment life shows us its sunnier side, but fate soon intervenes and the film concludes with an open ending leading either to a respectable life or to the cemetery. Its suggestive title lingers at the end, leaving a question mark that the viewer will have to turn over personally, and thats a good thing. The other side of hope premiered in competition at the 2017 berlin film festival. For the meanest among three goons despair event horizon. M 100 minutes heres a guide for those who have never seen a film by aki kaurismaki. In the other side of hope, two very different men are looking for a fresh start. The other side of hope 2018 official hd trailer a film by.

The other side of hope by andrew chan subscribe to the magazine for all the smallscale realism of his bestknown films, jia doesnt shy away from populating the screen with imposing, recognizable landmarks, mining them for drama and making them resonate in unexpected ways. Its refreshing to see a film about the refugee crisis that doesnt rely on cliche. In december 2016, it was selected to play in competition at the 67th berlin international film festival. The other side of hope 2017 the criterion collection. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and tv news. Almost 30 years later, the other side of hope certainly hasnt forgotten its roots but this is a significantly more mature work by a director at the top of his game. Writerdirector aki kaurismaki further sharpens his craft with the other side of hope, offering a timely drama whose melancholy air is leavened by its empathy. Search for screenings showtimes and book tickets for the other side of hope. It was quirky, hilarious and steeped in an appreciation of good old fashioned rocknroll. Khaled sherwan haji is a displaced syrian who lands in helsinki as a stowaway. The film was produced by kaurismakis finnish company sputnik. The finnish filmmaker aki kaurismaki, who made his first narrative feature thirtyfive years ago, is a model auteur.

His latest project, the other side of hope, offers a cleareyed response to the current refugee crisis by following the friendship of a displaced syrian in helsinki and a middleaged finnish salesman who decides to start over by purchasing a conspicuously unprofitable seafood restaurant. The director himself announced that it would be his last work. The story is about a finnish businessman who meets a syrian asylumseeker looking for. Finnish master aki kaurismaki returns with his first feature in six years, the other side of hope, a bittersweet comedydrama about the unlikely friendship between a syrian refugee and a low.

Filled with empathy for its characters, the film is a. Because its set in his native finland, i suppose this picture has more of what ill call akian tropes than le havre did. The first of these is that of khaled sherwan haji, a syrian refugee who. The other side of hope has the stately pace and graceful precision of a movie from the 1930s, and democratic, antiauthoritarian politics that also evoke that era. The directors seamless politics and rock n roll style have been evolved in the past decade, and the other side of hope feels like a crystallization of sorts. One of its protagonists, wikstrom, drives around in a sleek, oversized black car of a vintage unknown to me, in keeping with the directors insistence. From the coal hold of a polish freighter, a syrian stowaway named khaled sherwan haji emerges, covered head to toe in coal dust.

Winner of the berlin silver bear for best director, its a beautiful, timely film from one of the worlds leading auteurs. Palace films winner fipresci grand prix best film of 2017 winner 2017 berlin. The other side of hope begins like one of those 1930s french movies about angry barge workers or existentially compromised longshoremen. With ville virtanen, dome karukoski, tommi korpela, kati outinen. Writerdirector aki kaurismaki further sharpens his craft with the other side of. Kaurismakis the other side of hope builds on the minuscule changes present in his 2011 film, le havre, which concerned an ageing shoe. Toivon tuolla puolen, englischsprachiger festivaltitel. So too is his latest feature, the other side of hope.