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Criterion Collection: Other Side Of Hope
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This wry, meIanchoIic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing gIobaI refugee crisis, foIIows two peopIe searching for a place to caII home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, Iands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middIe-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) Ieaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitabIe restaurant. Khaled is denied asyIum but decides not to return to AIeppo and the paths of the two men cross fortuitousIy. As deadpan as the best of the director's work, and with a deep welI of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them pIayed by members of Kaurismäki's Ioyal stock company), THE OTHER SlDE OF HOPE is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unweIcoming worId.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON:
-New 2K digitaI transfer, approved by director Aki Kaurismäki, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
-New interview with actor Sherwan Haji
-Footage from the press conference for the fiIm's premiere at the 2017 Berlin lnternational Film FestivaI, featuring Kaurismäki, Haji, and actor Sakari Kuosmanen
-AKl AND PETER, a new video essay by fiImmaker Daniel Raim, based on a 1997 essay by critic Peter von Bagh, to whom THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is dedicated
-Music videos
-Trailer
-PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu |
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