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LE HAVRE
February 19, 2023
Moderator: Toni Perrine
Panelists: Carl Plantinga (Film) and Marc-Antoine Serou (Culture)

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Year: 2011
Country: Finland/France
In this warmhearted comedy from Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America), fate throws the young Gabonese refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a living in the French harbor city Le Havre.
Festival Premiere
2011 Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection
Awards
FIPRESCI Prize, Winner
2011 Cannes Film Festival
Best Film, Nominee
37th César Awards

"Here is the sunniest film I've seen by Aki Kaurismäki, and he reveals a lot of sunshine inside for a director whose world is usually filled with deadpan losers."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Cinematographer Timo Salminen frames everything crisply so that the city of Le Havre’s grays are illuminated with splashes of color yet retain a somewhat misty allure, as though he were filming a 40s spy drama."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
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