The Other Side of Hope's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
As a writer, Kaurismäki has a precious knack for jokes that work beautifully in any language.
Indiewire
Winsome, sweet, and often very funny, ?The Other Side of Hope? is more of the same from Kaurismäki.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kaurismaki has always had a peerless knack for submitting pressing social issues to his unmistakable worldview with tonally rich results.
Cinemanía
Aki Kaurismäki's menu is always the same, but there is no one who guises the same and serves it in a place as distinguished as he.
Fotogramas
The Finnish filmmaker builds a fable without moralizing, which tells the situation of the refugees when they arrive in Europe without loading the inks, relying on the warmth of their laconic characters.
The Guardian
But the film is devilishly funny, economically constructed (the demise of Wikström?s marriage is shown in wordless images) and decked out in the director?s dismal palette of cobalt blue, moss green and burnt-marmalade orange.
Variety
Aki Kaurismäki has made his version of a '90s Jim Jarmusch film, though beneath the hermetic quirks the topic couldn't be timelier.
El País
The other side of hope is not my favorite kaurismäki, but an unusual, bittersweet and beautiful film. As in the excellent Le Havre, this lover of wine and starless people once again speaks of the refugees, of those who have lost everything or almost everything, although they can not give up the instinct for survival.
El Mundo
Again, the result is a film as captivating as raw, as desperate as, already, necessary