The Man Without a Past

"Enormously satisfying, superbly crafted."

"Droll, reticent, flawlessly filmed fable of generosity."

"It's a gentle, surprising little movie whose rewards lie in what its characters don't say as much as in what they do."

"It is at once artful and unpretentious, sophisticated and completely accessible, sure of its own authority and generous toward characters and audience alike - a movie whose intended public is the human race."

"At the end of The Man Without a Past, I felt a deep but indefinable contentment. I'd seen a comedy that found its humor in the paradoxes of existence, in the way that things may work out strangely, but they do work out."

"Offers up a subversive comic sensibility, one that somehow combines Buster Keaton's deadpan stare with Frank Capra's tireless optimism and filters them both through a black-ice Finnish point of view."

"It's impassive, impressive stuff from Kaurismäki, who creates a heart-warming tale set against his nation's blighted economy."