2011 · drama · comedy
Le Havre
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki1h 34m2011
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
Our read: Le Havre (2011) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- tender
- signature
- intimate
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