2017 · drama · comedy
The Other Side of Hope
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki1h 41m2017
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Our read: The Other Side of Hope (2017) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- signature
- intimate
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