Le Havre
Feb 3 to Feb 8
Friday to Wednesday 4:00, 6:00, 8:00
Aki Kaurismaki - 2011 - 93m - France/Finland - in French with English Subtitles
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALLIANCE FRANCAISE !
In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.
"Charming! If you’re tired of cynicism and pretentiousness and feel like a cinematic breath of fresh air, I encourage you to see it." - Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
"Buster Keaton isn't dead, he's alive and well in Finland ... If the name Aki Kaurismäki doesn't mean anything to you, it should, and Le Havre may be the film to make it happen." - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
"Grade: A! A perfect, deadpan, impishly optimistic fairy tale." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"A stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be ... Aki Kaurismäki has become a major inheritor of the comic-humanist tradition of Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir and Jacques Tati." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"Four stars! There is nothing cynical or cheap about it, it tells a good story with clear eyes and a level gaze, and it just plain makes you feel good." - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
