The Other Side of Hope
The Other Side of Hope

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Syrian refugee Khaled stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, traveling salesman Wikström wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and Wikström finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef, and his dog.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Other Side of Hope:

Sherwan Haji
Sakari Kuosmanen
Kaija Pakarinen
Niroz Haji
Janne Hyytiäinen
Ilkka Koivula

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Syrian refugee Khaled stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, traveling salesman Wikström wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and Wikström finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef, and his dog.

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - 10/10 by John SemleyIt's a rare feat for a director whose films, from their muted humour and dated-seeming mise-en-scène, to their use of flat, unexpressive, Bressonian close-ups of characters, have always seemed weirdly outside of time.
The Telegraph - 10/10 by Tim RobeyAs a writer, Kaurismäki has a precious knack for jokes that work beautifully in any language.
The Film Stage - 10/10 by Rory O'ConnorHope is as contemporary and vital a film as you’re likely to find in 2017, but it’s also one of the funniest and most classically (not to mention beautifully) cinematic too.
Village Voice - 9/10 by Kristen Yoonsoo KimFor all the deadpan comedy and eccentric characterization, Kaurismäki anchors the film in Khaled’s story and his immigration anxieties, all depicted with quiet humanity that never feels exaggerated. It’s a beautiful companion piece to Le Havre, and a film that will gently warm your cold, cynical heart.
The New York Times - 9/10 by A.O. ScottThe deadpan style of the acting functions as a vaccine against sentimentality, but there is no doubting the sincerity of this movie’s motives or the effectiveness of its methods.
Screen International - 9/10 by Dan FainaruAs economical in his visual style as he is with his dialogue, Kaurismaki makes the most out of having his actors do the least.
The Hollywood Reporter - 9/10 by David RooneyWhile the film depicts a world seldom far removed from grim reality, the sly strain of humor keeps it buoyant, nowhere more so than in Kaurismaki’s deadpan dialogue, delivered with affectless aplomb by his marvelous cast.
Indiewire - 9/10 by David EhrlichWinsome, sweet, and often very funny, The Other Side of Hope is more of the same from Kaurismäki, and thank God for that.
The Playlist - 9/10 by Jessica KiangSomehow one of the effects of our current state of topsy-turviness has been to bring us closer into alignment with Kaurismäki’s skewed vision; if his movies are all, in their way, like pictures hanging crooked on a wall, with The Other Side of Hope we don’t have to tilt our heads anymore: the whole house has moved around us.
RogerEbert.com - 9/10 by Glenn KennyKaurismäki makes these bigots look ridiculous, but he also takes very seriously the damage they do, and the movie’s finale takes that into account.

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