Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's exhilarating masterpiece, The Man Without A Past, arrives with an astonishing pedigree: A list of awards longer than the film itself.

Among them is an Oscar nomination as best foreign language film (this or Hero should have won, not Nowhere In Africa). Kaurismaki's film also took the grand jury prize at Cannes 2002, with co-star Kati Outinen named best actress. The film was later nominated for six European Film Awards and won the FIPRESCI international critics prize as the best of 45 Oscar entries shown at the 2003 Palm Springs Film Festival. There are numerous other honours on the list.
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