That's the first Finnish movie I see!

No... I'm Greek and it's a miracle that I had the chance to see this movie! Now, as far as how famous finns are out there... Well, I can't really tell about directors or actors (as I said it's the first Finnish movie I saw and I don't know if there'll be another), but the majority of my small music collection consists of Finnish metal bands. Which means that if not anything else, you people know how to make good music.

What do you think of Nightwish? Do you people in Finland consider Tarja Turunen as Godess? (You really should!)
(Sorry I get off topic but I just can't resist, showing you how grateful I am to this FINNISH band)

Cheers!

i wouldn't recommend many finnish movies... most of them are just plain crap. this one i did like, but kaurismäki's movies are not exactly the typical finnish movies. though there is some finnish kid's movies i've loved :)

why not 22 pistepirkko??? or leningrad cowboys instead????





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It reminded me of "Night on Earth." I loved it!

I trust I make myself obscure.

Well the only good music in Finland is metal music and I think that's a thing Finland is known of (at least among the metalheads).

Hi this movie was also my first experience with finnish cinema. I am from México and as you surely guess Finnish movies are not exactly "common" here. However I really liked "The Man Without a Past" ("El hombre sin pasado" en español).
IMO Everybody should watch movies from as many different countries as possible because after watching them you realizes that the suppossed differences and cultural barriers aren't that important nor as present as we were taught. For me Finland's, Helsinki's people (in Kaurismäki's vision) acts and behaves pretty similar to my countryman. Many of the differences created to divide us are superficial and artificial. Of course there are differences in the language, landscapes, weather, economy (sometimes) and the skin color that is only an issue for racist pricks. But after all we are basically the same, human beings and our problems and solutions to them are very similar.
Watching movies from India, South Africa, Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Algerie, Canada, France, Spain, México, etc. it's a good way to understand how similar are we as human beings and how thin are many if not all of the walls that have been imposed to us in order to make us believe that we are really very different people.


Kaurismaki, Ang Lee, González Iñárritu, Kiarostami, Haneke, Almodóvar, Meirelles, Arcand, Kurosawa, Bergman, Hrebejk, Eisenstein, Fellini, Truffaut, Jarmusch, Buñuel, Gowariker, Yimou Zhang, Costa Gavras, Fassbinder, Ken Loach, Spielberg, Gavin Hood etc show us in each one of his works that the human race is one and just one.

Mies vailla menneisyyttä is one great movie, certainly I am gonna try to watch more finnish movies, hopefully they will be as witty, bizarre, funny, humanist, cheerful and warm as this finnish gem.

They who believe that the money does everything, end by doing everything for money