2011: Cesar Awards: 3 nominations: Best Film, Director & Production Desing 2011: Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award. Official Selection 2011: European Film Awards: 4 nominations 2011: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film 2011: Critics Choice Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film 2011: David Di Donatello: Nominated for Best European Union Film 2011: Chicago Film Festival: Best Movie
Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa.
As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy. It's time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.
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"A tender, warm embrace to those who find themselves rootless... Le Havre offers them and moviegoers an enchanted port in the storm, a cinematic refuge from real life" (Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter) ----------------------------------------
"There’s nothing preachy about Le Havre. It has immense, minor-key charm, and Kaurismaki’s understated deadpan wit is never far from the surface" (David Gritten: Telegraph) ----------------------------------------
"A stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be, grounded in a frank recognition of the way it is" (A. O. Scott: The New York Times) ----------------------------------------
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Le Havre
