Title of film : Le Havre
Director Name : Aki Kaurismaki
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Producer : AKI KAURISMAKI
Editor : TIMO LINNASALO
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Synopsis : “Le Havre,” named for the industrial port city in northern France where it takes place, is a tale of lower-depths solidarity, a stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be, grounded in a frank recognition of the way it is. You could easily imagine this story - about a young African refugee who comes under the protection of a French shoeshine man and his neighbours - as a grimly realistic exercise in guilt-inducing consciousness-raising.
Director Bio : Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including that of a postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's “Alphaville” (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 1980s, though Aki's work has found more favour abroad. His films are very short eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns.
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