- Studio: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Apr 4, 2003
- Starring: Annikki Tähti, Kati Outinen, Markku Peltola
- Summary: The second installation of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland Trilogy," this touching and amusing film portrays a man who must start his life anew when he is brutally mugged and loses his memory. (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Director: Aki Kaurismäki
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Crime, Music
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 29
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Mixed: 0 out of 29
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Negative: 0 out of 29
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100Kaurismaki 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.
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100A powerful film made with minimal means, it's a story of poor people on the fringes of society, done without sentimentality or condescension but with wicked humor.
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100The message, if there must be one, of this marvelous, stubbornly personal movie is that there is a spark in every soul.
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80This is a very simple story, but it builds beautifully to an endearing and witty romance.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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EricP.10
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