Pertti Sveholm

You may know the lovely cinema of garage-rock auteur Aki Kaurismäki, but his brother Mika is in fact just as prodigious a filmmaker who dexterously and with pleasure jumps from genre to genre. Here’s his Finnish take on the buddy comedy road movie, proving Americans hardly have a claim on the idea!

An elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.

A national celebration disrupted by a hostage crisis thrusts Max Tanner into a race against time to stop a menace threatening European stability.