Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

A Finland/France/German comedy-drama, Le Havre was screened twice during the first days of the 8th Panorama of the Europen Film, an event which runs until 5 December. The film screened as part of the ...

From Aki Kaurismäki, the writer, director and producer of The Man Without a Past and one of the world’s most distinctive film-makers, Le Havre is the huge-hearted tale of a friendship between 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 ...

CANNES — Aki Kaurismaki’s ”Le Havre,” Pierre Schoeller’s ”The Minister” and Jeff Nichols’ ”Take Shelter” shared awards Saturday at Cannes from the Fipresci Intl. Federation of Film Critics. Also ...

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 ...

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Aki Kuarismaki's Le Havre and Phillipe Lioret's Welcome both tackle the same subject matter but in wildly different styles. Some might feel the artificial, almost throwaway, nature of Le Havre ...

Le Havre: Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) and his moody friend take a turn at Marcel Marx's shoe shine stand Le Havre is the story of shoe-shine man Marcel Marx (an impressively ragged but still noble André ...

The long collaboration between Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurismäki (‘Drifting Clouds’, ‘The Man Without a Past’) and his cinematographer Timo Salminen means you can spot a shot from his films a ...

The Normandy port whose name means 'the harbour’ is an endearingly down-at-heel utopia in Aki Kaurismäki’s second French-language feature. The Finnish filmmaker paints the city of Le Havre as an ...