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Other Side of Hope, The (12A)

Comedy, Drama

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.

The critical consensus

Screamingly funny in places, gorgeous-looking, marbled with melancholy and warmed through with an irresistible sense of compassion, The Other Side of Hope is the work of a master filmmaker at the very top of his game. Simply sublime.

*****Allan Hunter, The List, 22/05/2017

Pure, unadulterated cinematic pleasure. Kaurismäki is one of the greats.

****(*)David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 24/05/2017

Parts of the film are very downbeat but the film comes complete with the familiar Kaurismaki ingredients: scene-stealing dogs, incongruous rock music and absurdist humour, much of it revolving around Sushi and Japanese ornaments.

****(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 24/05/2017

The two characters’ stories converge in hilarious ways, but it’s the empathy the film generates – accomplished without speechifying or sentimentality – that lingers longest.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 25/05/2017

Aki Kaurismäki’s tale of a Syrian refugee who stows away to Finland mines the deadpan humour he’s famous for while refusing to flinch from heartbreak and hardship.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 25/05/2017

A Syrian asylum seeker finds friendship with a hapless Finnish restaurateur in part two of Aki Kaurismäki’s migrant trilogy.

****(*)Simran Hans, The Observer, 28/05/2017

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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