Franco: Spain’s Scorned Memory,” a new documentary that marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Spanish dictator Francisco ...

For buyers and sellers of French programming the Rendez-Vous market is a back-to-school moment after the summer break. Having relocated from Biarritz to the port city of Le Havre in Normandy, Northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...