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First Reported Apr 12 2012 - Updated Apr 12 2012 - 1 Documents

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Le Havre

Ari Kaurismaki is not your average film maker, as fans of such films as Leningrad Cowboys Go America and The Man Without a Past, will already know. is his first feature film since 2007 and it has charmed critics the world over, even winning the FIPRESCI ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Rhythm Circus ]

Entities: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, André Wilms, Kati Outinen, FIPRESCI

First Reported Mar 29 2012 - Updated Mar 29 2012 - 1 Documents

Aki Kaurismäki

Watch Aki Kaurismäki's new film Le Havre online with us

From April 6, Cannes favourite Le Havre will be in cinemas. But for those who might prefer (and live in the UK or Ireland), you can stream it here via Curzon on Demand. Either way, be sure to tune in for our Q&A with top evolutionary theorist Mark Pagel ... [ Published Mar 29 2012 by Film blog | guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Aki Kaurismäki, Peter Bradshaw, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, André Wilms

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"Le Havre had all the master's trademarked deadpan dialogue and delicious nuggets of bone-dry humour, and his compassion for the marginalised and dispossessed, but with something richer and sweeter than I remember from his previous pictures. His sensibility is closer to that of Chaplin, in this film, than anyone else. Le Havre is shot in the French port town, with French actors and dialogue, though Kaurismäki's repertory stalwart player Kati Outinen has a role. She plays the wife of Marcel (André Wilms), a dignified, stoic man who works as a shoeshiner on the streets. Marcel witnesses an illegal immigrant boy from Gabon, Idrissa (Blondin Miguel), escape from the police and sets out to help him. But a tough cop, Inspector Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is on his trail, not to mention a mean-spirited local given to making anonymous denunciations. Kaurismäki's movie moves lightly but elegantly and quickly, like a little jockey on a powerful horse. In the hands of someone else, this film might seem unendurably twee and affected, but its charm and good nature carry it along. Somehow, for all its comedy and absurdity, Le Havre addresses its theme with more persuasive confidence than many a grim social-realist picture. Apart from everything else, Kaurismäki is a master of making deadpan a subtle, expressive performance mode, rather than the arthouse cop-out it too often is. With him, it is a specific discipline and a refined comic mode. What a treat this film is." We're huge Kaurismäki fans at the Guardian, as you may have gathered...

Watch Aki Kaurismäki's new film Le Havre online with us [Film blog | guardian.co.uk - Mar 29 2012]

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