Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan in Port of Shadows Apparently, there’s something about Le Havre. In 2011, I reviewed Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre, a quirky and colorful drama set in the aforementioned French port city, and last year I wrote about Jean Renoir’s La Bête Humaine, a tragedy in which murder is committed on a […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: The Fairy
"The Fairy" has been favorably compared to the films of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton: don't forget Georges Méliès. Apparently, there’s something about Le Havre. Previously the star of Aki Kaurismaki’s eponymous shaggy dog tale, the spotlight is once again on this French port town in The Fairy (La fée), a delightfully absurd comedy opening […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Le Havre & El Bulli
Andre Wilm (left) in Aki Kaurismaki's distinctive "Le Havre" It’s fairly obvious from the get-go where Aki Kaurismaki’s new film Le Havre (opening at Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas this Friday) is going — viewers conversant in the language of cinema will probably divine its narrative direction before the end of the second reel. That doesn’t mean […]