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“Le Havre” is not a story about a man's triumph over adversity — this is the chapter after he has already failed. Yet through it all, he still strives to be as good a man as he has ever been. read more

Despite his detached, downbeat approach, Kaurismäki has never been a misanthrope or a cynic, and he has always shown sympathy for the downtrodden and overlooked.

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As a peripatetic shoeshine man, Marcel Marx (Andre Wilms) is an unlikely benefactor. He and his wife (Kati Outinen) live almost hand to mouth at a time when more and more potential customers are clad in sneakers and boots, with no conventional shoes to shine, and store owners have no patience when he parks his box outside their doors.

In which the darkness of illegal immigration is depicted in a sweet fairy tale by Al Hoff The Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki has made some odd and unsettling films (Leningrad Cowboys Go America, The Match Factory Girl), but the writer-director's latest Le Havre is a surprisingly sweet fable. The story unfolds over a few days in the titular French port city.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the ...

Reel on the River presents Le Havre at 7 p.m. on Jan. 30, at Silvercity Mission movie complex. Single tickets are $10 at the door, or $35 for the series of five films. See more details on films at www. reelontheriver.ca.

No cinephile could possibly watch this movie without thinking of Jacques Tati (1908-82), a French director, who may well have been the inspiration for the Belgo-Canadian-French directors of "The Fairy." Tati's theme, like that portrayed by Buster Keaton, is that individual personality is warped by unfeeling organizations--which the principal characters try to overcome. In "The Fairy," Dom ...

Ligue 1 giants Marseille will have to do without Cameroon international Stephane Mbia for a month after scans revealed he had suffered an injury to the tendon in his thigh during their French Cup match on Sunday.

Benin midfielder Stephane Sessegnon stole the English Premier League show at the weekend with many fellow Africans on Cup of Nations duty in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

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