Aki Kaurismaki, director of Leningrad Cowboys Go America and The Match Factory Girl, has written and directed a slyly understated tale of the ability of a man to wipe the slate clean because he has amnesia. Starting out broken, bleeding, and alone after clinically dying from a brutal subway attack, our nameless hero (Peltola) decides to help those in the local community, and begins to work with a female Salvation Army worker, Irma (Outinen, who won an acting award at Cannes for this performance). A romance between them, obstructed by his ignorance of whether he is already married and by her reserve, nevertheless blossoms slowly.

Many of the lines of this movie are classics, not only because they are funny, but also because they crystallise perfectly the important moments in life. See this charming, deadpan comedy for its serious kindliness