The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.... (Full plot summary below)
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The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
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| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittKaurismaki is Finland's greatest filmmaker, and never has he more artfully balanced his patented blend of deadpan humor, low-key melodrama, and toe-tapping music. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIt's a movie that genuinely makes an audience happy -- Kaurismäki understands, and shows us, how a lost past can be redeemed by a hopeful future, and how an unknown place can become a home. |
| Sacramento News & ReviewMark HalversonA full-bodied, melancholy-tinged ode to the resiliency of mankind. |
| eye WEEKLYAdam NaymanA more sublime viewing experience you could scarcely hope for. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawHopeful about the ability for man to persevere in a capricious world. |
| San Jose Mercury NewsGlenn LovellThe prolific Kaurismaki's sweetest slice-of-lifer yet. |
| CitysearchErich ScholzProvokes thought and provides joy in equal measure. |
| National PostChris KnightIt manages to build slowly into a whimsically charming story about finding love and making do with what life throws at you. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersAfter watching it, I wasn't too sure myself if my choices would be any different than those M makes. He has no clue as to the life he's led, only feelings that tell him he wasn't the type of man he necessarily wanted to be. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAt the end of The Man Without a Past, I felt a deep but indefinable contentment. I'd seen a comedy that found its humor in the paradoxes of existence, in the way that things may work out strangely, but they do work out. |
