Film le havre aki kaurismaki

With curzon on demand, you can watch it in hd quality on your own sofa as soon as it opens on 6 april published. Blondin miguel in le havre 2011 aki kaurismaki in le havre 2011 blondin. Review aki kaurismakis le havre is a deadpan delight. Jeanpierre leaud also appears in both films, but as different characters. Marcel marx, execrivain et boheme renomme, sest exile. Le havre opens friday at lincoln plaza cinemas and ifc center in new york filmmaker. In this warmhearted comic yarn from aki kaurismaki, fate throws the. Seven rounds with aki kaurismaki film the guardian. Le havre it feels like a family reunion with some of aki kaurismakis favorite gallic and finnish thesps, joined by a few newbies in le havre. Le havre has won many festivals, including chicago 2011, comes from a. Again reteaming with cinematographer timo salminen, editor timo linnasalo and his usual ensemble of finnish and gallic actors, kaurismaki is clearly in his. He is described as finlands bestknown film director. Le havre is also a love letter to france, in particular to a halfimaginary, halfvanished realm of proletarian frenchness incarnated in the films.

Aki kaurismaki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dishwasher and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, villealfa in homage to jeanluc godards alphaville 1965 with his older brother mika kaurismaki, also a film maker. The 47th chicago international film festival gave its top award, a gold hugo for best film, to aki kaurismakis drama le havre finlandfrance. San valentino con aki kaurismaki, robert pattinson e catherine deneuve. A man befriends a young boy, an illegal immigrant who arrives in le havre and who is desperate to get to london. Here is the sunniest film ive seen by aki kaurismaki, and he reveals a lot of sunshine inside for a director whose world is usually filled with deadpan losers. It takes alot these days for me to fall in love with a film but that is just what i did with the french film le havre 2011.

Aki kaurismakis le havre is that rare exception, harkening back to his 2002 cannes entry, the man without a past, in the pleasure department. A sua estreia como diretor independente foi em crime and punishment 1983. Le havre is a fable about a small community in the titular normandy port who harbour an illegal immigrant boy. Aki kaurismakis deadpan wit hits a graceful note with le havre. Original movie posters movie poster art film posters african american culture. Director aki kaurismaki lights a cigarette during a news conference for the film le havre at the.

The film was produced by kaurismakis finnish company sputnik with international coproducers in france and germany. Finnish director aki kaurismaki is once again at the top of his game with the drolly comic le havre, winner of the fipresci prize for best film at this years cannes film festival. Le havre is a 2011 comedydrama film produced, written, and directed by aki kaurismaki and starring andre wilms, kati outinen, jeanpierre darroussin and. In this warmhearted portrait of the french harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws.

Time and again, kaurismaki has tackled social themes unemployment, homelessness and, in the new le havre, immigration in europe without ever making socalled issue films. With its bouncy soundtrack, deadpan humor and goodnatured disposition, finnish director aki kaurismakis le havre is an. 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. Le havre grew out of your concern that the problem of refugees attempting to seek safe haven in eu countries has not been. Aki kaurismaki is as offbeat as always, but this immigrationthemed film gives him a new heartfelt urgency. Le soir, quand il rentre dans sa bicoque, sa femme arletty lattend. With curzon on demand, you can watch it in hd quality on your.

His dour films are comedies, too, and baffle some viewers while others grow unreasonably fond of them. Aki kaurismakis deadpan wit hits a graceful note with le havre, a comedydrama thats sweet, sad, and uplifting in equal measure. Aki kaurismaki came up with the idea of a shoeshiner rescuing an african boy after the shoeshiners all. The film was directed by finnish director aki kaurismaki who also directed the man without a past 2002. Both aki and mika are prolific film makers, and together have been responsible for. Finnish director aki kaurismaki has created a magical film about the warmth of the human heart that is willing to be open and hospitable to strangers from another culture. Le havre had all the masters trademarked deadpan dialogue and delicious nuggets of bonedry humour, and his compassion for the marginalised and dispossessed, but with something richer and sweeter than i remember from his previous pictures. Le havre, named for the industrial port city in northern france where it takes place, is a tale of lowerdepths solidarity, a stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world. With andre wilms, blondin miguel, jeanpierre darroussin, kati outinen. The man is going through personal problems of his own his wife is seriously ill and he forms a bond with the boy as he tries to help him hide from the law. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the french port city le havre. Le havre is a 2011 comedydrama film produced, written, and directed by aki kaurismaki and starring andre wilms, kati outinen, jeanpierre darroussin and blondin miguel.

He is best known for the awardwinning drifting clouds 1996, the man without a past 2002, le havre 2011 and the other side of hope 2017, as well as for the mockumentary leningrad cowboys go america 1989. The movie is a homage to french cinema, shot and acted in the flat. Le havre, directed by aki kaurismaki, was nominated for the cannes palme dor. Le havre is the glasgow film festival closing night gala 26 february and goes on general release on 6 april. Laltro volto della speranza, il nuovo film di aki kaurismaki. Marcel is an innocent who sets out on a dangerous mission to save idrissa and is willing to suffer the consequences if it doesnt work. When an african boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of le havre, an aging shoe. Sadly, le havre continues this trend although it is arguably one of the directors best films to date. Kaurismakis le havre serves up trademark wit on a baguette open this photo in gallery. It is a very sweet little film about community and an incorruptible innocence.