Tagged: aki kaurismaki

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

November 22, 2023

Fallen Leaves: Harmony of Contrasts, by Scott Nye

Despite saying at the time of its release that The Other Side of Hope would be his final feature, 66-year-old Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki is back with a new film on old themes – middle-aged people on the margins of...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

December 14, 2017

Criterion Prediction #119: The Other Side of Hope, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Other Side of Hope Year: 2017 Director: Aki Kaurismäki Cast: Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, Simon Al-Bazoon, Ilkka Koivula Synopsis: A restaurant owner and his staff band together to help a Syrian refugee find his...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 30, 2017

The Other Side of Hope: Everybody’s Had to Fight to Be Free, by David Bax

Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope is replete with guys with shaggy hair and sunglasses playing folk rock on guitars. Whether they’re busking or gigging, these interstitial sections could seem like a fetishization of a specific, Beat hipster type...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 28, 2017