Finnish – American Heritage Center to Screen a 2002 Oscar Nominated, and Cannes Film Festival Award Winning Foreign Film

The Finnish –American Heritage Center will screen a 2002 Oscar nominated comedy tomorrow afternoon. The Man Without a Past is a Finnish comedy drama, and is the second in Aki Kaurismaki’s Finland trilogy. The other two are 1996’s Drifting Clouds, and 2006’s Lights in the Dusk. The Man Without a Past was nominated in 2002 for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. It is thus far the only Finnish film nominated for the award, and won that same year at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows a nameless man who arrives in Helsinki and the troubles he falls into along the way before losing all memory of his. He then begins a new life living in a shipping container with new neighbors and clothes from the Salvation Army. The film has received praise from critics, and fans alike, with reviews stating Kaurismaki perfects deadpan humor and is brilliantly ironic. The Man Without a Past will screen tomorrow at the Finnish American heritage center at 2 pm. Other scheduled film dates include January 18, February 15, March 15 and April 19. All showing will start at 2 pm.

Screen time information for the November, 16th showing of The Man Without a Past