Le Havre
- warm
- measured
- tender
- signature
- intimate
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
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The shape of Le Havre
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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