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In this film, patrons of a bar watch a pair of sisters perform the song “Born in Sorrow and Clothed in Disappointment” before the shot pans to follow the protagonist’s friend carrying a drink. This film ends with a character revealing that her adopted dog is named Chaplin. Characters in this film listen to radio news about the outbreak of the Russian invasion of (*) Ukraine, despite a calendar that suggests the film takes place several years after those events. Two characters in this film attend a showing of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, where a pair of men outside the theater compare (10[1])it to Diary of a Country Priest and Band of Outsiders. Shortly thereafter, the alcoholic construction worker Holappa unwittingly loses a piece of paper with Ansa’s number, and is unable to look her up because he does not know her name. For 10 points, name this 2023 romantic comedy directed by Aki Kaurismäki. ■END■

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