Time to continue our tour de France. Oh, sorry, I meant – tour de Cannes! Next movie we're going to talk about is a movie titled Le Havre directed by Aki Kaurismaki that is scheduled to premiere In Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
We're talking about another “dramatic comedy” but who would expect less from Kaurismaki?
At this moment we know that this project tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre.
Director Kaurismaki had the idea of a film about an African child arriving in Europe three years before the production started. He considered setting the story in Marseille and port cities in Spain and Portugal, but found Le Havre to be the ideal location, saying:
“It is a great place to work and Le Havre is a perfect name for the movie.”
Le Havre is both directed and written by Kaurismaki, and it stars André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel and Elina Salo.
The film was produced by Kaurismaki's Finnish company Sputnik with international co-producers in France and Germany.
It is Kaurismaki's second French-language film, after La Vie de Bohème from 1992.
At the end, let us remind you that the Finnish director's The Man Without a Past won the Grand Prix, the second most prestigious award at the festival, in 2002, so we guess that all eyes are on Le Havre this year.
We'll keep an eye on this one, so stay tuned!
