2011 > Finland/France/Germany > Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
With Andre Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Aki Kaurismäki's warm-hearted fable is named after its setting, the French port city of Le Havre, where its hero, Marcel,
leads a simple life shining shoes. Enter Idrissa, a young illegal immigrant from Africa, whom Marcel helps out of curiosity and
kindness. With Kaurismäki's deadpan sensibility Le Havre "spins what could have been a grittily realist polemic into a
fanciful fable, all the more affecting for being so tethered to the urgencies of the real world." (Washington Post)
Cosponsored with the Cornell French Society. Subtitled. More at janusfilms.com/lehavre/ 35mm
1 hr 33 min