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Le Havre

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Aki Kaurismäki’s “Le Havre” May 17, 2011.

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Le Havre (2011)

Director - Aki Kaurismäki, Cinematography - Timo Salminen

"The bucket returns to the well until it breaks."

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André Wilms, April 29, 1947 – 9 February 9, 2022.

With Blondin Miguel in Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (2011).

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SUBLIME CINEMA #454 - LE HAVRE

Aki Kaurismaki has been making these beautiful compact films since the 80′s; there exists a production system in Europe and his native Finland to produce the types of movies that he makes - intelligent, socially aware dramas and dry comedies (often a combination of the two), which don’t exactly bring in millions or fit into a typical genre, but they’re just great movies. He’s one of the rare directors who’s managed a career doing exactly what he wants, under the radar and with just enough clout to where he's never needed to compromise. 

His one compromise was the threat to switch to digital in his later years. He is one of the fiercest proponents of maintaining 35mm, calling digital filmmaking childish crap, while admitting he was an old codger, sitting on his fence, throwing stones backwards to an audience who doesn’t care. But his passion for real film medium - elokuva, living images, in Finnish, remains, and he pledged to keep filming on stock as long as labs and the stock itself are available to him. But - he has since announced that he was done directing, refusing that very compromise. 

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91. O Porto (Le Havre, 2011), dir. Aki Kaurismäki

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Ein Märchenfilm von Aki Kaurismäki, in schlichter, aber zauberhafter Ausstattung und Gemütslage. Mit Wunder! Das brauchten wir gerade.

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LH

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A dock worker in Le Havre hears a human sound inside one of the containers in port, that container which left Gabon three weeks ago and which was supposed to arrive in London five days after its departure from Gabon, which didn’t happen. The Le Havre police and French border guards find a still alive group of illegal African immigrants inside. On the sign from one of his elders, a young teen boy among the illegal immigrants manages to escape, news of which hits the local media. The first friendly face that boy, Idrissa, encounters is that of former artist now aged shoeshine Marcel Marx. Marcel decides to help Idrissa by hiding him in his house, news which slowly trickles through his community of friends - most of whom he associates with at his local bar - and neighbors, most who assist Marcel in this task. Marcel goes to great lengths to find out Idrissa’s story, which leads to Marcel’s further task of trying to get Idrissa to London, his original end destination. The one neighbor who wants to turn Idrissa in and the authorities seem to be on to Marcel’s activities, most specifically hard nosed police Inspector Monet, who may have his own private agenda. Through it all, Marcel has on his mind the health of his terminally ill and hospitalized wife Arletty, the terminal aspect being something of which he is unaware and which may in turn eventually kill him as Arletty is his life.

24.11.2017 22:00 Düzce

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# 137 - Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011)

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[Last Film I Watched] Le Havre (2011)

[Last Film I Watched] Le Havre (2011)

Title: Le Havre Year: 2011 Country: Finland, France, Germany Language: French Genre: Comedy, Drama Director/Writer: Aki Kaurismäki Cinematography: Timo Salminen Cast: André Wilms Kati Outinen Jean-Pierre Darroussin Elina Salo Blondin Miguel Evelyne Didi Quoc Dung Nguyen François Monnié Jean-Pierre Léaud Little Bob Pierre Étaix Umban U’kset Ilkka Koivula Rating: 8.3/10

Le Havre, the port city of…

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Aki Kaurismäki’s “Le Havre,” May 17, 2011.

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#826: ‘Le Havre’, dir. Ari Kaurismäki, 2011.

In Le Havre, Ari Kaurismäki becomes a fabulist, telling his simple story with such precision, both in filming and in narrative, that its more absurd twists are almost unnoticeable.

Not too long ago, an old man and his wife lived in Le Havre. They were poor but kind-hearted, and they were very happy, although they had no children. One day, the man’s wife became sick, and the doctors were unsure what to do. At the same time as she was with the doctors, the man found a young boy who had escaped from a dangerous land (a shipping container, in this case) and the man fed and protected the boy. He spent all the money he had, and convinced his friends to give him money too. All the while, the man was pursued by a magistrate who wanted to capture the boy. Finally, the old man had enough money to send the boy to his destination, assisted by the magistrate, who was kinder than he first appeared. When he visited the doctors, he was afraid his wife had died, but because of his kindness she had made a miraculous recovery. The moral of the story is that pineapples don’t have sleeves.

Kaurismäki’s film plays these story beats with a whole heap of seriousness, and still finds room for deadpan humour throughout. However, the combination of whimsical fairytale and topical serious story - Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) is an illegal immigrant to France, trying to make his way to Britain - makes this film neither laugh-out loud funny nor a particularly engaging watch. Kaurismäki doesn’t make deep inroads into the immigrant experience in Le Havre, despite having an ample cast of characters to do this with, including Quoc Dung Nguyen as Chang. Nor does the film really move fast enough to give energy to its story. All the complications in the film’s plot are flimsy enough to be easily dealt with: the inspector eventually decides to ally with Marcel (André Wilms), the fact that the fund-raising concert is a day earlier than Marcel thinks it is serves mostly to have him send Idrissa in his place, and the conflict between the musician and his wife that puts the concert in jeopardy is dealt with in three minutes. The only truly comedic moment is when the inspector, having asked the grocer about Marcel’s behaviour, is encouraged to buy something, and then lugs the produce around for the next scene.

To complain about these things made me wonder if I was missing the point, though, and I have to conclude that I am somewhere. One of the joys of fables is seeing the same story beats replicated in slightly different arrangements, and if any complications were too difficult it would risk bringing the validity of helping Idrissa into question. We’re meant to worry that Marcel’s wife Arletty (Kati Outinen) has died while Marcel was attending the concert, but if that’s the case then either Idrissa wasn’t worth helping or Arletty was supposed to die. The moral of helping others gets knocked out of whack.

(And you thought I was kidding about the pineapple.)

So one of the film’s pleasures is in its simplicity, and Kaurismäki knows how to film this story in a crisp way. The colours and costumes are out of 1970s French farce, and if the film’s story wasn’t so overtly current it would be difficult to pinpoint its precise timeframe. The actors also bring a good amount of internal life to their characters that makes them seem more real than the plot would otherwise suggest.

It’s not a particularly fun film to watch - it’s about as much of a comedy as Magnolia is. Most of the reviews of Le Havre pointed out that it’s not breaking any new ground for Kaurismäki , although the influences from French cinema are clearer. But it is a light and simple film to watch, like a palate cleanser between courses. Speaking of palate cleansers, it makes for a very nice one before the main course that is Michelangelo Antonioni, to whom the list turns next.

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Le Havre (2011)

Le Havre, Fin yönetmen Aki Kaurismäki’nin Cannes’da “FIPRESCI En İyi Film” ödülü alan son filmi. Yönetmenin 1992 yapımı filmi La Vie De Boheme’de de yer alan Marcel Marx karakterini bu filmde tekrar görüyoruz. Bohem hayatını geride bırakarak evlenmiş ve karısı Arletty ile Fransa’nın Le Havre kasabasında sade bir hayat sürdürmektedir. Geçimini ayakkabı boyacısı olarak sağlayan Marcel’in yolu…

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Le Havre - Aki Kaurismäki (2011)

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Umut Limanı Filmi | Le Havre Türkçe Dublaj İzle

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