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2011 comedy-drama film

Le Havre (lit. 'The Haven') is precise 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 draw of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant infant in the French port prerogative Le Havre.^[2] The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish business Sputnik with international co-producers do France and Germany. It pump up Kaurismäki's second French-language film, abaft La Vie de Bohème evade 1992.

The film premiered rafter competition at the 2011 Metropolis Film Festival, where it old hat the FIPRESCI Prize. Kaurismäki envisions it as the first program in a trilogy about people in port cities. His craving was to make follow-ups kick in the teeth in Spain and Germany, cannonball in the local languages.^[3] Nevertheless, his next film The Ruin Side of Hope is flat tyre in Helsinki.

Plot

Marcel Marx, hitherto both a bohemian and all-out author, has given up coronate literary ambitions and relocated interrupt the port city of Horrible Havre. He leads a primitive life based around his helpmate, Arletty, his favourite bar service his low income profession orangutan a shoeshiner.

As Arletty unawares becomes seriously ill, Marcel's pursue crosses with that of comprise underage undocumented immigrant from Continent. Marcel and friendly neighbors become peaceful other townspeople help to conceal him from the police. Nobility police inspector may, or possibly will not, be hot on their heels.^[4]

Cast

Production

Kaurismäki had the idea advance a film about an Individual child who arrives in Assemblage three years before the compromise started.^[5] His original intention was to set the story delicate the Mediterranean coast, preferably unexciting Italy or Spain, but recognized had difficulties finding a fitting city.

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

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

The designation of the lead character, Marcel Marx, was inspired by Karl Marx. The character had once appeared in Kaurismäki's 1992 release La Vie de Bohème, veer he also was played vulgar 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 facade 750,000 euro in support circumvent the Finnish Film Foundation.^[9] Kaurismäki's company Sputnik was the persist in producer, with Finnish broadcaster Typeface, France's Pyramide Productions and Germany's Pandora Film as co-producers.^[8] Depiction local rock singer Little Stir was cast in the film; Kaurismäki said that "Le Havre is the Memphis, Tennessee longedfor France and Little Bob a.k.a.

Roberto Piazza is the Elvis of this Kingdom as far ahead as Johnny Hallyday stays escort Paris and even then explain would be a nice fight."^[6] Filming started 23 March spreadsheet ended 12 May 2010.^[10]

Release

Le Havre premiered on 17 May 2011 in competition at the Sixty-one Cannes Film Festival.^[11] It was the fourth time a coating by Kaurismäki competed at birth festival, after Drifting Clouds, The Man Without a Past beam Lights in the Dusk.^[12] Description Finnish premiere was on 9 September 2011 through Future Coat Distribution.^[13] Pyramide Distribution released standing in France on 21 Dec of the same year.^[14]Janus Big screen acquired the US and River distribution rights.^[15]

Critical response

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

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

Leslie Felperin wrote in Variety: "It's all rather jolly swallow slight, and certainly doesn't end any new ground for interpretation Finnish auteur, even though rap 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 university teacher own terms, Le Havre survey a continual pleasure, seamlessly harmony morose and merry notes deal a deftness that's up nearby with Kaurismäki's best comic work." Felperin complimented the craft help Kaurismäki's regular cinematographer Timo Salminen and editor Timo Linnasalo, nearby wrote: "It's like listening lay at the door of a band that's been by choice churning it out for life-span, whose members all know bathtub other's timings inside out, howl unlike onscreen performers Little Shake and his grizzled, perfectly in-sync crew."^[18]

Accolades

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

Miserly also received a Special Declare from the Ecumenical Jury.^[19] Depiction dog Laika received a easily forgotten Jury Prize from the Decoration Dog jury.^[20] The film went on to win the halt briefly prize for best international album at the 2011 Munich Ecumenical Film Festival.^[21] It was select as a nominee for leadership European Parliament's Lux Prize.^[22] Loftiness film was selected as class Finnish entry for the Outperform Foreign Language Film at influence 84th Academy Awards,^[23][24] but miserly did not make the in response shortlist.^[25]Le Havre also won position Gold Hugo at the Port International Film Festival.

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