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Nov 2, 2011 · “Le Havre” is set much farther south, in the French port city where many of the cargoes are human: illegal immigrants arriving from Africa. The police find a container filled with them, and a young boy slips under their arms and runs away.
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Oct 20, 2011 · 1h 33m. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 20, 2011. “Le Havre,” named for the industrial port city in northern France where it takes place, is a tale of lower-depths solidarity, a stylized and sentimental...
- Aki Kaurismäki
Le Havre is a very romantic, crowd-pleasing story that imparts a warm, golden glow to a serious and rather morose subject - modern refugee movements - with compassionate characters with...
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- André Wilms
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Comedy, Drama
Kaurismäki's Le Havre is simply unmissable, a cine-literate treat that's somehow simultaneously archaic and contemporary. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2019
Le Havre: Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. With André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel. When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Aki Kaurismäki
- 2011-09-08
Aug 3, 2015 · Le Havre (2011) is a still, quiet and dryly hilarious film. It has many of the qualities of a Japanese master like Mizoguchi, but if he had emigrated to a small French port and had been forced to make working class comedies. It focuses on a shoe shiner called Marcel Marx whose wife contracts a seemingly terminal disease.
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
