It doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume, if you’ve chosen to watch a movie called Tolkien about J.R.R. Tolkien, you’re probably forearmed with some awareness and appreciation of who the guy was. But director Dome Karukoski and screenwriters David Gleeson and...
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...
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...
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...
