Le Havre (2011)

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   DJPowWow

   Witty, stylish, and heartwarming. The aesthetics and deadpan delivery keep the storytelling simple, with an even simpler message that people should help each other more often. 11 years 9 months ago
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   abemad

   Great. Very stylistic in its cinematography and lighting. Condensed and to the bone in its storytelling and editing. Nice and subtle humour on the background of a highly contemporary story about our unbalanced globe, the hope for freedom and the power of human compassion. 12 years 2 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Sometimes, it takes a village, and that village is Le Havre. An older man finds a refugee boy, just escaped from a freight container and, always the anti-authoritarian, he decides to help him rejoin his family rather than turn hi over to the immigration people. Sweet without being saccharine, the film soon has other people in the harbor town lend help, sometimes secretly, sometimes overtly, and we might find ourselves in a moral universe that agrees with these actions. These kinds of stories may seem idealistic, but I rather think they show it's really not that difficult to the right thing. Maybe it's because Le Havre is on the same coast as Cherbourg, but the colorful cinematography reminded me of Demy's Umbrellas. Maybe France's northern towns are just that colorful, I don't know. Maybe they're like fishing towns here in Atlantic Canada, where houses are painted with left-over boat paint. Or maybe I just want to believe I live in a moral universe too. 2 years 2 months ago

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