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AKFilmFan
30Dec12
Uplifting without the usual Hollywood sugar-coating, this simple tale kept reminding me of a modern-day Capra.
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Scott Barley
5Dec12
While Le Havre is well made, there is very little for the spectator to latch on to and regard as being great. A film with a quiet voice.
Carlos Filipe Freitas
26Nov12
Through a poignant humor and an uncanny style that gives particular attention to the image composition. Review and rating: http://alwayswatchgoodmovies.blogspot.com/2012/05/le-havre-2011.html
Jordan Peters
9Nov12
Wes Anderson without the stuffiness, Kaurismäki has crafted a sweet, quietly rewarding film that strikes a great balance between quirk and gravitas.
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Cole Caudle
30Oct12
Beautifully acted. Wonderfully oddball characters. A lot of warmth. However almost too fanciful for its own good. Lacking any real dramatic weight and so nothing about the ending has any impact. Instead it feels a like a weirdly ironic nod to a conventional happy ending without the conviction that it could really happen. Left me more puzzled than delighted.
Giuseppe Sorrentino
26Aug12
When a man looks at life on earth, with the eyes of a distant, detached creature, who seems to experience things as we know them, for the first time, the effect can be sublime. Everything, from a kid running, to the most remote movement of an eye, is beheld through the lens of eternity. Only a poet can do that. Aki Kaurismäki is a poet.
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Elliot Kern
21Aug12
One of the most clever pieces of Le Havre is the nationalist played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, with a stick up his ass calling the cops any time he sees Idrissa in the streets. Kaurismäki apes aspects of "french new wave" style to a beautiful effect, but uses its living symbol as a signifier of French racism - both separating himself from -- and re-appropriating -- a dated form. It makes for great parody.
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Effendi Ben Smith-Malick
17Aug12
Visually interesting, but aside from the main character I didn't find anyone else interesting. Well, maybe Little Bob because he was kinda oddly entertaining.
Ben Wheeler
2Aug12
A tender & cute film. Political, ethical and optimistic. I loved the beautiful images and sweet characters. I wish there was a little more to the story, but it's still a pleasant little movie with gorgeous lighting.
Lucas Granero
9Jun12
Kaurismaki, el único cineasta de hoy día que puede tomarse su tiempo dedicándole un plano a las manos de un hombre armando un regalo. ¿Por qué vemos eso y no nos molesta? Porque es un cineasta justo. Le Havre es, en toda su humanidad, una película hecha de pequeños gestos de justicia poética. Un film que puede llegar a verse como anticuado, anacrónico si se quiere, pero nada mas lejos: es esta una película actual.
Andrei - Cristian
20May12
I wonder if this film, as it is, would have got the same appreciation if somebody less well-known directed it. Probably not. All in all, I'm glad I saw Leaud even for a couple of seconds.
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msmichel
17May12
Have followed the work of Kaurismaki for years and it had been far too long since his last. A beautiful film very much a product of today's world. The fear of immigration and the bureaucracy of administering 'justice' framed within a story of a childless man who just wants to do the right thing. Wilms and Darraussin perfectly cast with the usual greatness of Kaurismaki's stock company familiar from so many pics.
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DK
23Apr12
One of the sweetest, anti-cynical films I've seen in a long while. Amazing how declarative and unrealistic the acting is, and yet how emotionally-effective. Similar in tone to Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, but occupying a Kaurismaki world all its own, made up of the smallest most beautiful touches (onions, jumpers, a blues record, breakfast on a sea-cliff).
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