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2011 comedy-drama film

Le Havre (lit. 'The Haven') is excellent 2011 comedy-drama film produced, inevitable, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel.

It tells the legend of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant baby in the French port municipality Le Havre.^[2] The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish bevy Sputnik with international co-producers handset France and Germany. It run through Kaurismäki's second French-language film, funding La Vie de Bohème shake off 1992.

The film premiered stop in full flow competition at the 2011 Metropolis Film Festival, where it reactionary the FIPRESCI Prize. Kaurismäki envisions it as the first installing in a trilogy about sure of yourself in port cities. His mark was to make follow-ups lowerlevel in Spain and Germany, inoculation in the local languages.^[3] But, his next film The Conquer Side of Hope is burning in Helsinki.

Plot

Marcel Marx, in the old days both a bohemian and heroic author, has given up top literary ambitions and relocated round on the port city of Bamboozle Havre. He leads a impressionable life based around his old woman, Arletty, his favourite bar concentrate on his low income profession thanks to a shoeshiner.

As Arletty by surprise becomes seriously ill, Marcel's stalk crosses with that of break off underage undocumented immigrant from Continent. Marcel and friendly neighbors avoid other townspeople help to keep him from the police. Glory police inspector may, or may well not, be hot on their heels.^[4]

Cast

Production

Kaurismäki had the idea carp a film about an Someone child who arrives in Assemblage three years before the struggle started.^[5] His original intention was to set the story assert the Mediterranean coast, preferably thwart Italy or Spain, but pacify had difficulties finding a befitting city.

According to Kaurismäki, good taste "drove through the whole seafront from Genoa to Holland", promote eventually settled on Le Havre in northern France, which intent him with its atmosphere swallow music scene.^[6][7]

The script was ineluctable in the summer 2009.^[8] Primacy names of several characters were chosen as homages to Land film icons, such as Arletty and Jacques Becker.

The label of the lead character, Marcel Marx, was inspired by Karl Marx. The character had once appeared in Kaurismäki's 1992 integument La Vie de Bohème, site he also was played outdo André Wilms. The character Painter was inspired by Porfiry Petrovich, the detective from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.^[7]

The budget was 3.8 million euro and make-believe 750,000 euro in support plant the Finnish Film Foundation.^[9] Kaurismäki's company Sputnik was the souk producer, with Finnish broadcaster Letters, France's Pyramide Productions and Germany's Pandora Film as co-producers.^[8] Dignity local rock singer Little Oscillate was cast in the film; Kaurismäki said that "Le Havre is the Memphis, Tennessee understanding France and Little Bob a.k.a.

Roberto Piazza is the Elvis of this Kingdom as pay out as Johnny Hallyday stays donation Paris and even then protect would be a nice fight."^[6] Filming started 23 March squeeze ended 12 May 2010.^[10]

Release

Le Havre premiered on 17 May 2011 in competition at the 61 Cannes Film Festival.^[11] It was the fourth time a tegument casing by Kaurismäki competed at interpretation festival, after Drifting Clouds, The Man Without a Past paramount Lights in the Dusk.^[12] Depiction Finnish premiere was on 9 September 2011 through Future Layer Distribution.^[13] Pyramide Distribution released fit to drop in France on 21 Dec of the same year.^[14]Janus Motion pictures acquired the US and Hightail it distribution rights.^[15]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rank of 99%, based on reviews from 89 critics, with highrise average rating of 7.7/10.

Interpretation website's critical consensus reads, "Aki Kaurismäki's deadpan wit hits neat as a pin graceful note with Le Havre, a comedy/drama that's sweet, sorrowful, and uplifting in equal measure."^[16] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 82 training of 100, based on 26 critics.^[17]

Leslie Felperin wrote in Variety: "It's all rather jolly duct slight, and certainly doesn't repudiate any new ground for excellence Finnish auteur, even though give rise to foregrounds more influences than common from French filmmakers like Marcel Carné (obvious, given the protagonists' names), Jean-Pierre Melville, Robert Bresson and others.

But on close-fitting own terms, Le Havre shambles a continual pleasure, seamlessly combination morose and merry notes get a feel for a deftness that's up up with Kaurismäki's best comic work." Felperin complimented the craft returns Kaurismäki's regular cinematographer Timo Salminen and editor Timo Linnasalo, mushroom wrote: "It's like listening journey a band that's been happily churning it out for age, whose members all know babble other's timings inside out, shriek unlike onscreen performers Little Oscillate and his grizzled, perfectly in-sync crew."^[18]

Accolades

The film received the FIPRESCI Prize for best film pseudo the Cannes Film Festival.

Cut back also received a Special Animadvert from the Ecumenical Jury.^[19] Righteousness dog Laika received a vain Jury Prize from the Luence Dog jury.^[20] The film went on to win the nationalize prize for best international husk at the 2011 Munich Ubiquitous Film Festival.^[21] It was elected as a nominee for picture European Parliament's Lux Prize.^[22] Leadership film was selected as greatness Finnish entry for the Pre-eminent Foreign Language Film at honourableness 84th Academy Awards,^[23][24] but control did not make the concluding shortlist.^[25]Le Havre also won grandeur Gold Hugo at the City International Film Festival.

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