Le Havre
DramaComedy
7/10
|FR
|fr
|94 min
Release Date: 2011-09-08
Overview - In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
Production Companies
Pyramide ProductionsSputnikPandora FilmARTE France CinémaZDF/Arte
User Reviews
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Andres Gomez
6/10
Simple story, well and gently told in Kaurismäki's characteristic style.
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CRCulver
5/10
In the 2011 production LE HAVRE, the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki steps away from his usual Helsinki setting for the first in what will be a trilogy of films in Western European port cities. Always rooting for the underdogs, Kaurismäki this time concentrates not just on the disenfranchised urban lower class, but on a socioeconomic strata arguably lower than them: illegal immigrants. Middle-aged s...
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