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Le Havre (2011) 7.2
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7.2/10 from 9,283 users
Metascore: 82/100
Reviews: 31 user | 189 critic | 26 from Metacritic.com When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home. Director:Aki KaurismäkiWriter:Aki Kaurismäki |
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Claire
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Yvette
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Chang
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Laïka | ... |
Laïka - Dog
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Epicier
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Docteur Becker
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Vincent Lebodo | ... |
Francis
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Umban U'kset | ... |
Mahamat Saleh
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When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
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Language:
FrenchRelease Date:
8 September 2011 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
El puerto See more »Box Office
Budget:
€3,850,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$26,363 (USA) (21 October 2011)Gross:
$611,709 (USA) (13 April 2012)Company Credits
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Written by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera
Performed by Carlos Gardel
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Finland's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012. See more »Soundtracks
"Cuesta Abajo"Written by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera
Performed by Carlos Gardel
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Like every fairy-tale, this film by Aki Kaurismaki is unbelievable, but this apparent fake doesn't hide a sad reality behind the good intentions of the simple people that help the illegal immigrant child to arrive finally to London, wherein we couldn't predict what kind of life waits for him. A slow rhythm, (some scenes seem like stills), and a brilliant and strong color that contribute to the atmosphere of unreality, the frustration to the normal expectations of the viewers that are carried to imagine the worst, and receive on the contrary the sudden impact of the best, don't prevent to bring to the conscience the images of the cruel world that surrounds the miracle of solidarity that saves, perhaps momentarily, just one of the hundred persecuted. The bad and the good boys are generally discovered by the camera, which leaves, significantly, in off the figure of the pitiless chief of policy, and introduces in darkness the figure of the denouncer. Le Havre is an optimist movie with a very dubious happy end.