'The Other Side Of Hope': Finding Haven — And Hamachi — in Helsinki
Finnish writer/director Ali Kaurismaki follows up his 2011 film The Havre with a darker, but still comic, variation on a similar theme — a character fleeing bloody conflict gets taken in by a group of outcasts.
Arriving in supposedly liberal Europe, a refugee is hounded by the authorities but saved by a handful of scruffy outsiders. If the scenario of Aki Kaurismaki's sounds familiar, that might be because it's essentially the same as the plot of its predecessor, 2011's . The principal distinction is that the Finnish writer-director's latest comic melodrama is darker and more directly
