FREE Finnish Film Nite at UC Berkeley "Mies vailla menneisyyttä" / "The Man Without the Past" at 6:30 pm

FINNISH FILM NIGHT AT UCB!!! (FREE)

Aki Kaurismäki's

Mies vailla menneisyyttä
The Man Without the Past (2002)

 

Tues, March 11
6:30 PM
in Dwinelle Hall #B-4

     “A nameless man comes to town and gets beaten to death in the first possible moment. So begins this epic drama, this film – or should we say a dream? – of lonely hearts with empty pockets under the big sky of our Lord… or should we say birds?” -Aki Kaurismäki- ...See More

     Aki Kaurismäki: Mies vailla menneisyyttä/The Man Without the Past (2002) Tuesday, 3/1 6: 30 PM in Dwinelle B-4 "A nameless man comes to town and gets beaten to death in the first possible moment. So begins this epic drama, this film – or should we say a dream? – of lonely hearts with empty pockets under the big sky of our Lord... or should we say birds? 

     " -Aki Kaurismäki-"The impish Aki Kaurismaki, whose previous film was the black-and-white, silent" Juha, "fills this proletarian fable with music and color. The hero, a jowly, sad-faced welder (Markku Peltola), wakes up after a vicious mugging to find himself suffering from complete amnesia. But his state of dislocation turns out also to be a state of grace, as he finds friendship in a shipping-container shanty-town and love with a Salvation Army worker (Kati Outinen). The movie, with its easy, graceful humor and its plainspoken sense of decency, recalls the great populist films of the 1930 's and early 40 's: there are traces of Charlie Chaplin, Preston Sturges and Frank Capra in Mr. Kaurismaki's democractic aesthetic, and like them he has made a simple, poignant comedy whose intended audience is nothing less than the human race. "— A. O. Scott, New York Times