* "THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST," starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemela.
THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST Written (in Finnish, with English subtitles), produced and directed by Aki Kaurismaki; director of photography, Timo Salminen; edited by Timo Linnasalo; production designers, Markku Patila and Jukka Salmi; released by Sony Pictures Classics.
But in the life-affirming Finnish comedy THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST (2002), amnesia is about the purity of knowing nothing, a route to the ultimate starting-a-new-life story, a fable about the human capacity for change.
This is only Kaurismäki's third film in the past decade, the others being The Man Without a Past (2002) and Lights in the Dusk (2006), both very big hits in Cannes.
"He died a man without a past".
Of making Jack a character without a past?
· The Man Without a Past is released next Friday.
NEW ROCHELLE -- International Film Series: "Man Without a Past," directed by Aki Kaurismaki.
The orphaned outsider without a past is recruited into the Soviet secret service.
Into this sleepily writhing nest comes sculptor Adam Berendt, a desirable drifter without a past.
There's no such thing as a saint without a past and a sinner without a future.
