Road North

Tie pohjoiseen

Finland

2012

110 Min

Color

Finnish

Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Mika Kaurismäki, Sami Keski-Vähälä

CAST Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Peter Franzén, Mari Perankoski, Eila Roine, Irina Björklund, Elina Knihtilä, Ada Kukkonen, Rea Mauranen, Aake Kalliala, Amira Khalifa, Krista Kosonen, Marja-Leena Kouki, Minni Laakso, Aiden Lind, Eeva Litmanen, Irina Pulkka, Kristo Salminen, Emilia Sinisalo, Pertti Sveholm, Leena Uotila, Eija Vilpas, Jukka Virtanen

MUSIC Ilari Edelman, Kaihon Karavaani, Mauri Sumén

Timo is an esteemed concert pianist whose personal life is on the rocks. One day Timo finds an older, shabby-looking man at his door. The man, Leo, turns out to be his father who left the country when Timo was three — and hasn’t been in touch in 35 years. Leo, an eternal trickster with a positive outlook on life, had to leave his homeland thanks to a series of messy entanglements. Now he’s come back to hand over a rather mysterious legacy to his son and to answer questions regarding the past. To do this, the two will have to embark on a trip together and hit the road north. –TIFF

Director

Mika Kaurismäki

Mika Juhani Kaurismäki (born 21 September 1955 in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish film director.

He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.

Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several Brazilian-themed films, including Amazon, Tigrero, Sambólico, Rytmi, and Moro no Brasil. His film Brasileirinho is a 2005 musical documentary about traditional Brazilian choro music. —Wikipedia