Mixing together some of helmer Aki Kaurismaki’s favorite Gallic and Finnish thesps with a few newbies, “Le Havre” feels like a welcoming family reunion. A semi-contempo fairy tale about a ...

Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre is something of a comeback for the Finnish filmmaker. His warmhearted comedy of underdog working-class solidarity, made with a mixed Finnish-French-Senegalese cast ...

In Le Havre the director returns to France to create a morality fable about the ever increasing problem of immigrants fleeing their home countries in seek of a better life. Set in the fishing town of ...

CHICAGO — Aki Kurausmaki ’s Le Havre (Finland/France) has won the Gold Hugo, the top prize at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival. The tale of an aging Bohemian shoeshine man and a ...

According to André Wilms—the star of Le Havre—during his hilarious stream of consciousness Q&A at a screening for the Toronto International Film Festival, director Aki Kaurismäki decided it was time ...

Le Havre opens Friday at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and IFC Center in New York. Filmmaker: Le Havre grew out of your concern that the problem of refugees attempting to seek safe haven in EU countries has ...

The film is especially comforting if you love old movies, as Kaurismaki does: his deadpan humor and deliberately flattened images evoke silent comedy, as usual, and his rosy depiction of ...

LOCARNO, Switzerland – The Piazza Grande screening of Aki Kaurismaki ’s Le Havre was Wednesday’s highlight at the 68th Locarno Film Festival, where co-stars Andre Wilms and Kati Outinen ...