Finnish Delight
Five of five stars. Buy The Man Without A Past while you still can from Walmart, as it doesn't seem to be available anymore from Amazon or most other DVD vendors. An excellent Christmas gift during this time of belt-tightening. Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki circumambulates an existential meditation on who we are when we forget the details, due to amnesia. For some this would be a strange movie but I find it charming, beautiful, keenly observant, and most sympathetic. Also droll. It has a heroine from the Salvation Army and it ends well. What more could one ask?
Posted by George Kenney on December 10, 2008 1:07 PM 
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What a rare pleasure to know someone who has actually heard of Aki Kurismaki.
His "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" was rare in its absurdity and its acuity.
The imagination of the European directors has surpassed us. Example:
"Black Cat, White Cat" by Emir Kusturica.
I will look for "The Man Without A Past."
Posted by: Lon C Ponschock | December 11, 2008 9:09 PM