Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki is at it again, another film with absurdist and deadpan humour, characters who never seem to have anything but a neutral expression on their faces, despite whatever else is going on, and language seems just a bit different than a normal person’s. And once again, he tells a tale of refugees, in this case a young man from Syria who has snuck into Finland on a ship (and taken in by a gruff salesman who decides to enter the restaurant business, with not too much success). But there is a lot of humanity in this story and you’ll likely be both puzzled and intrigued. (Subtitles.)
