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. It doesnt take us 4 hours from our house and we are an hour and a half further west from le havre. Le havre is the maist populous commune in the hautenormandie region, although the total population o the greater le havre conurbation is smawer than that o rouen. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the french port city le havre. I dont wish to be pedantic, but just to clarify the drive time from le havre to calais it is about 2 hours, no more than 2. 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. Sommaire 1 synopsis 2 fiche technique 3 autour du film 4 distribution 5. Le havre appartient a lensemble geologique du bassin parisien, forme a lere secondaire. Apr 05, 2012 the movie is set in the port city of le havre, maybe summoning a distant ghost of latalante, and it has a solid, oldfashioned look. The man is going through personal problems of his own his wife is seriously ill and he forms a bond with the boy as. Le mois du film documentaire edition 2019 lundi 25 novembre 2019 a 20. From celebs brands to confidential ones, from decoration and art to local products, it has enough to max out your credit card there. I heard of aki from the title le havre, which starts off as a very charming but honest piece.
The film premiered in competition at the 2011 cannes film festival, where it. Numerous roads link to le havre with the main access roads being the a29 autoroute from amiens and the a autoroute from paris linking to the a1 autoroute. It is a wellknown harbour town on the northern coast of france. Its not just the rich, bourgeois, and poor in this film. He shows a less delicate touch in handling the politics of immigration, reducing the african boy to a mere totem among his usual cast of quirky eccentrics. Its a pleasing, wellproportioned trifle, but that doesnt seem like enough. Marcel marx, execrivain et boheme renomme, sest exile.
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. Jul 31, 2012 kaurismaki has certainly not left bohemia behind entirely, like marcel has, but le havre is indeed a film that depicts the political and juridical stakes in contemporary europe in a far more straightforward, less attenuated manner than a film like the man without a past, or such pastiche works as juha 1999 or lights in the dusk 2006, which. The movie is set in the port city of le havre, maybe summoning a distant ghost of latalante, and it has a solid, oldfashioned look. Minor pleasures abound in le havre, especially in the effortless chemistry and affection between longtime kaurismaki favorites wilms and outinen, and in the film s resonant sense of. Le havre is located 50 kilometres 31 miles west of rouen on the shore of the english channel and at the mouth of the seine.
Monet devient donc lelement dune dramaturgie simplifiee. In this warmhearted comic yarn from aki kaurismaki, fate throws the. Apr 07, 2012 i n what he intends to be a trilogy of movies set in ports, the finnish moviemaker aki kaurismaki turns his affectionate, whimsical eye on the impoverished but generous folk of a rundown. Le havre is also a love letter to france, in particular to a halfimaginary, halfvanished realm of proletarian frenchness incarnated in the films.
Whenever we drive from calais to home we always know we are well past the halfway point when we reach le havre. The urban area of le havre corresponds roughly to the territory of the agglomeration community of le havre codah which includes 17 communes and 250,000 people. At le havre, a ruetinted fable of time and transit. Writerdirector aki kaurismakis latest film le havre is a real charmer. Le havre numerisation transfert bobine film 8mm super8. It is situatit in northwastren fraunce, on the richt bank o the mooth o the river seine on the inglis channel. Administratively, le havre is a commune in the normandy region in the west of the department of seinemaritime. The film was directed by finnish director aki kaurismaki who also directed the man without a past 2002. It is a story, or possibly a fable, about an immigrant african boy who becomes.
His sensibility is closer to that of chaplin, in this film, than anyone else. Festivaleure 2020 12e edition mardi 10 mars 2020 a 18. A man befriends a young boy, an illegal immigrant who arrives in le havre and who is desperate to get to london. Rares films tournes dans les rues du havre entre 1968 et 1970 pendant les dernieres annees dexploitation des trolleybus sur les lignes 5, 6 et 8. Le havre est une comedie dramatique finnofrancoallemande produite, ecrite et realisee par aki kaurismaki et sortie le 8 septembre 2011. The eglise st joseph stands proud in the centre of reconstructed le havre. I would highly recommend visiting the interior particularly later in the day as the sun descends in the sky and light plays on the stained. His sensibility is closer to that of chaplin, in this film. 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. Prestataire audiovisuel et agence specialisee dans le film dentreprise. What audiences do you think the film will appeal to. 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. Le havre charmingly renews the oldfashioned belief in an ethic among the urban poor, one that sometimes rises to the challenge of mutual help across lines of race and nation. Le havre has won many festivals, including chicago 2011, comes from a finnish auteur, yet let me suggest that smart children would especially like it.
In the pedestrian streets of the sector perret, around the halles centrales, in the district of gobelins st vincent, in the bright coty mall or in the surprising docks vauban remembering our maritime past, the shopping offer is wide. 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. The steeple rises like a lighthouse visible from land and sea. Le havre film 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.
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