Few filmmakers boast a style as inimitable as Aki Kaurismäki. His is a distinctly humanist cinema, one suffused with empathy for the common man. Bohemian, ruthlessly unsentimental, and tinged with a dark sense of humor, the world of Kaurismäki is one in which ordinary people rub up against a system designed to demoralize them—a world in which the surreal offers a path out of the hardships...