The Other Side of Hope - Telluride at Dartmouth

A poker-playing restaurateur and a Syrian refugee become friends in this “devilishly funny” (“The Guardian”) deadpan comedy.

September 19, 2017
4 pm - 6 pm
Location
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
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603-646-2422

Syrian refugee Khaled arrives in Helsinki on a cargo ship in the most incongruous fashion. Wikström, an aging bourgeois businessman, abandons his wife with bitterly droll brevity, taking to the road to pursue his restaurant dream. Inevitably, and with wondrous strangeness, their paths cross. If you weren’t already hooked by writer-director Aki Kaurismäki’s (Le Havre) oddball buddy film, once Khaled begins telling his harrowing story, you surely will be. For some 30 years, Kaurismäki’s elegant framing, concise characterization and eye for idiosyncratic details have made him a master of the deadpan. His memorable, mournful, ironic fable-like stories of losers, misfits and wanderers like Khaled and Wikström are an indelible part of cinema history. This is one of his finest. (Finland, subtitled, 2017, 1h 40m)

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Location
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
More information
Hopkins Center Box Office
603-646-2422