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245 00 Road north.
246 3 Tie pohjoiseen
264 1 [United States] :|bCorinth Films :|c2012.
264 1 |bMade available through hoopla,|c2012.
300 1 online resource (1 video file (circa 110 min.)) :|bsound,
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506 Digital content provided by hoopla.
508 Directed by Mika Kaurismäki.
511 1 Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Mari Perankoski, Irina
Björklund, Peter Franzén.
520 Timo, an esteemed concert pianist, gets the surprise of
his life one day after arriving home after a performance
only to find a homeless drunkard asleep outside his front
door. The man, Leo (played by Finnish musician, actor and
artist Vesa-Matti Loiri), makes the outrageous claim to be
Timo's long-lost father who left the country when Timo was
three and hadn't been in touch since. Leo, as mysterious
and manipulative as he is slovenly, has returned to bestow
his legacy upon his only son, and to re-unite him with his
estranged family - Timo's sister, ex-wife and daughter.
Creating more questions than answers, Leo proves to be his
son's alter-ego of sorts, eventually prying him from his
comfort zone and forcing him to reluctantly reconcile with
shadows of the past. Timo is skeptical of his father from
the very beginning and is never actually able to feel
comfortable around him for very long, until he learns the
truth of why Leo has come back to learn about the man his
son has become. Full of surprises, Road North is a hearty
father-son dark comedy and official TIFF 2012 Selection
which endeavors to teach its viewers a simple but
important lesson: sometimes you have to travel a long way
to see what is right in front of you. The film is directed
by Mika Kaurismaki and co-stars popular Finnish actors
Samuli Edelmann and Peter Franzzén alongside Loiri, who
brings the charismatic and eccentric Leo to life, and in
real life is a multitalented actor and musician who during
the course of a career spanning 50 years has appeared in
more than 70 films and has recorded 32 top-selling music
albums. Starring in the role of Timo, Samuli Edelmann is
one of Finland's most popular actors and singers, best
known to North American audiences for his role as henchman
Wistrom in Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).
521 8 Not rated.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
700 1 Kaurismèaki, Mika.|0(NL-LeOCL)14270007X
700 1 Loiri, Vesa-Matti,|d1945-
700 1 Edelmann, Samuli,|d1968-|0(NL-LeOCL)316082600
730 0 hoopla (Digital media service)
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