The film’s unoriginal solution to its mystery is redeemed by the streamlined ambiguity of Lee Cronin’s images.
Criterion gives The Other Side of Hope, the second part of Kaurismäki’s proposed “refugee trilogy,” a tip-top Blu-ray treatment.
There’s a lot of sexual violence in the film, but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive and blatantly misogynistic.
It fulfills the vague sense of its aspirational title as a film led only by the guidance of its maker’s skeptical positivity.
Criterion gives one of last year’s finest films an excellent transfer, finally bringing Aki Kaurismäki into the high-definition landscape.
What can we say about a film that makes a miracle seem like the most common thing in the world?
A Dangerous Method unsettles with its lucid visions of release and repression.
Immigration politics are at the forefront of Le Havre.
No trace of cuteness can be found in The Match Factory Girl, the toughest and most concentrated of the trilogy’s tragicomedies.
Though any number of scenes from the film could count as some of the wittiest of the year, the overall patchwork lacks emotional resonance.