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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. KhaIed (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 unprofitable restaurant. KhaIed is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director's work, and with a deep weII of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them pIayed by members of Kaurismäki's loyaI stock company), THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unweIcoming worId.
DlRECTOR-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 film's premiere at the 2017 BerIin International FiIm Festival, featuring Kaurismäki, Haji, and actor Sakari Kuosmanen
-AKI AND PETER, a new video essay by fiImmaker Daniel Raim, based on a 1997 essay by critic Peter von Bagh, to whom THE OTHER SlDE OF HOPE is dedicated
-Music videos
-TraiIer
-PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu |
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