The man in question, a wood carving by the name of Markku Peltola, is a train passenger who, in a scene of jolting brutality, gets mugged on his first night in Helsinki and wakes up with amnesia. A quirked-up comedy, despite the rough start, by the deadpan Finn, Aki Kaurismaki, with a clean, fresh, well-pressed image, and an uncondescending, unsentimentalizing treatment of the homeless. There are moments of genuine, if constrained, emotion. The outdoor concert for bums, by a moonlighting Salvation Army band, is a kind of peak. With Kati Outinen. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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