Le Havre (2011)
- Starring: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
- Director: Aki Kaurismäki
- Studio: Janus Films
- Genre: Comedy / Drama
- Rating: NR
- Running Time: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Release Date: October 21, 2011 (LA)
SYNOPSIS:
In his wry and warm-hearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, legendary Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past, The Match Factory Girl) pays tribute to the Gallic cinema he loves with a film that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Michel Carné.
Le Havre, Kaurismäki's 16th feature concerns a young African refugee (newcomer Blondin Miguel) who is thrown by fate into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-read bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. Kati Outinen, Kaurismäki's muse who appears in most of his films, plays Marcel's wife Arletty.
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