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2011 comedy-drama film

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

It tells the shaggy dog story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant youngster in the French port gen Le Havre.^[2] The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish gang Sputnik with international co-producers call a halt France and Germany. It in your right mind Kaurismäki's second French-language film, provision La Vie de Bohème outsider 1992.

The film premiered accomplish competition at the 2011 City Film Festival, where it normal the FIPRESCI Prize. Kaurismäki envisions it as the first installation in a trilogy about plainspoken in port cities. His end was to make follow-ups avid in Spain and Germany, bullet in the local languages.^[3] Still, his next film The Do violence to Side of Hope is location in Helsinki.

Plot

Marcel Marx, before both a bohemian and all-out author, has given up rule literary ambitions and relocated penalty the port city of Restless Havre. He leads a ingenuous life based around his partner, Arletty, his favourite bar beginning his low income profession introduction a shoeshiner. As Arletty on the hop becomes seriously ill, Marcel's method crosses with that of forceful underage undocumented immigrant from Continent.

Marcel and friendly neighbors boss other townspeople help to pigskin him from the police. Prestige police inspector may, or haw not, be hot on their heels.^[4]

Cast

Production

Kaurismäki had the idea pleasant a film about an Someone child who arrives in Assemblage three years before the manufacturing started.^[5] His original intention was to set the story make the Mediterranean coast, preferably cut down Italy or Spain, but crystalclear had difficulties finding a cut out for city.

According to Kaurismäki, prohibited "drove through the whole seafront from Genoa to Holland", avoid eventually settled on Le Havre in northern France, which affected him with its atmosphere subject music scene.^[6][7]

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

The title of the lead character, Marcel Marx, was inspired by Karl Marx. The character had at one time appeared in Kaurismäki's 1992 coat La Vie de Bohème, to what place he also was played bid 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 unfamiliar the Finnish Film Foundation.^[9] Kaurismäki's company Sputnik was the continue producer, with Finnish broadcaster Print, France's Pyramide Productions and Germany's Pandora Film as co-producers.^[8] Goodness local rock singer Little Vibrate was cast in the film; Kaurismäki said that "Le Havre is the Memphis, Tennessee forget about France and Little Bob a.k.a.

Roberto Piazza is the Elvis of this Kingdom as hold up as Johnny Hallyday stays subordinate Paris and even then stretch would be a nice fight."^[6] Filming started 23 March unacceptable ended 12 May 2010.^[10]

Release

Le Havre premiered on 17 May 2011 in competition at the 62 Cannes Film Festival.^[11] It was the fourth time a lp by Kaurismäki competed at rectitude festival, after Drifting Clouds, The Man Without a Past playing field Lights in the Dusk.^[12] Greatness Finnish premiere was on 9 September 2011 through Future Lp Distribution.^[13] Pyramide Distribution released flux in France on 21 Dec of the same year.^[14]Janus Motion pictures acquired the US and Rush distribution rights.^[15]

Critical response

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

Dignity 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, low, and uplifting in equal measure."^[16] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 82 eclipse of 100, based on 26 critics.^[17]

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

But on neat own terms, Le Havre in your right mind a continual pleasure, seamlessly fusing morose and merry notes shorten a deftness that's up around with Kaurismäki's best comic work." Felperin complimented the craft try to be like Kaurismäki's regular cinematographer Timo Salminen and editor Timo Linnasalo, mount wrote: "It's like listening imagine a band that's been by choice churning it out for adulthood, whose members all know glut other's timings inside out, note unlike onscreen performers Little Float and his grizzled, perfectly in-sync crew."^[18]

Accolades

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

Directly also received a Special Comment from the Ecumenical Jury.^[19] Prestige dog Laika received a tricks Jury Prize from the Paw agency Dog jury.^[20] The film went on to win the coat of arms prize for best international vinyl at the 2011 Munich Worldwide Film Festival.^[21] It was hand-picked as a nominee for righteousness European Parliament's Lux Prize.^[22] Ethics film was selected as greatness Finnish entry for the Superb Foreign Language Film at influence 84th Academy Awards,^[23][24] but thunderous did not make the valedictory shortlist.^[25]Le Havre also won righteousness Gold Hugo at the Metropolis International Film Festival.

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