{"id":1806,"date":"2016-12-10T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:43:07","slug":"the-other-side-of-hope-finland-thu-23-november-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/12\/the-other-side-of-hope-finland-thu-23-november-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE [FINLAND], THU 23 NOVEMBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtiFG6utst8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Combines poignancy with\u00a0torrents of laughter. \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>The Telegraph<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finland\u2019s master of deadpan comedy, Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki (Lights in the Dusk, Le Havre), returns with the story of an unlikely friendship between a Syrian asylum seeker and an elderly Finnish restaurant owner. \u00a0Winner of the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director, it\u2019s a beautiful, timely film from one of the world&#8217;s leading auteurs.<\/p>\n<p>Khaled (Sherwan Haji) arrives at the port of Helsinki concealed in a coal container, fleeing war-torn Syria to seek asylum in Finland. Dazed and frustrated by the monolithic administration he encounters at the detention centre, he makes a break for it and heads out onto the streets.<\/p>\n<p>There he meets Wikstr\u00f6m (Sakari Kuosmanen), a former shirt salesman who has recently left his alcoholic wife for a new life as a bachelor restaurateur. Together, they help each other to navigate the adversities they face in these unfamiliar and often baffling new worlds.<\/p>\n<p>With hilarious sight gags, poker-faced one liners and a toe-tapping rockabilly soundtrack, Kaurism\u00e4ki\u2019s latest balances his unparalleled wit with a pressing critique of the unforgiving bureaucracy that greets vulnerable asylum seekers in modern-day Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Humane and sincere, it&#8217;s proof of cinema&#8217;s power to tell stories that matter, with beauty and heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Finnish auteur Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki\u2019s film is filled with curious oddballs, but there are also many ethical connundrums to contend with.&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/the-other-side-of-hope-a-finnish-refugee-crisis-of-conscience-1.3093308\"><strong>The Irish Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Finds the artist at the height of his powers&#8230; winsome, sweet, and often very funny.&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/02\/berlinale-2017-berlin-film-festival-the-other-side-of-hope-review-aki-kaurismaki-finland-1201782984\/\"><strong>Indiewire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curzonartificialeye.com\/the-other-side-of-hope\/\">Click \u00a0here for website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN |Finland, 2017 | Language: Finnish | 98 minutes | Cert: 12<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aki Kaurismaki<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0 Ville Virtanen, Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela, Sakari Kuosmanen<\/p>\n<p>Director Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Loughlin will attend and introduce her short Irish film,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homecomingshort.com\/\">Homecoming<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0about a\u00a0young man&#8217;s struggles to find his place in life after returning to Ireland. A familiar face makes him wonder if things are about to change.\u00a0 Her 12-minute film will be shown before the feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combines poignancy with\u00a0torrents of laughter. \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u00a0The Telegraph Finland\u2019s master of deadpan comedy, Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki (Lights in the Dusk, Le Havre), returns with the story of an unlikely friendship between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[18,29,28,21,24,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}