LE HAVRE
Wednesday, November 16th at 7:00PM, Click Here to Buy Tickets
Co-Presented by International Rescue Committee Tucson & Literacy Connects
WINNER! FIPRESCI Prize / 2011 Cannes Film Festival
TUCSON PREMIERE
“Kaurismäki’s ingenious pastiche of French populist poetic-realist dramas plumbs their styles and moods for enduring political substance.” – Richard Brody, THE NEW YORKER
In his wry and warm-hearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, legendary Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST, THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL) pays tribute to the Gallic cinema he loves with a film that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Michel Carné. Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics’ prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Kaurismäki’s 16th feature concerns a young African refugee (newcomer Blondin Miguel) who is thrown by fate into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-read bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. This is a film unlike anything in the Kaurismäki canon, that still feels like it couldn’t have been made by anyone else.
(Directed by Aki Kaurismäki, Finland / France, 2010, 103 mins, NR) HD Digital Presentation
