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Le Havre

2011

Aki Kaurismäki

André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel ...

6.9

10,965

Comedy. Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	David Gritten Telegraph	"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"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be, grounded in a frank recognition of the way it is"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"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"	POS

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