Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

mmunier From my new country Australia but where I have spent nearly two third of my life, I really enjoyed this little trip back in France! Although the topic is not that of a holiday since it's about people looking for a better world and so becoming illegal immigrants. But the story concentrates more on one of them.... It's a charming story where people seem to be themselves, regardless of the circumstances, to remain "human beings" above all. It's sweet at time funny. I'm fond of J P Daroussin but did not know the other actors. So in one way it was refreshing but also rewarding to see someone whose acting I enjoy. I have never been to Le Havre so it was not really a trip down memory lane. And I was a little surprised to feel that the period did not seem to match with the year I expected it to be. I researched a little for my own satisfaction and read a very well written review from the New York Times ..."The film itself seems to belong to another era" It certainly did for me I kept struggling to feel whether I was in the 1930 or 40 years latter. It was a gentle ride and I enjoyed it very much.

gudpaljoey-677-715384 Le Havre was a joy to watch for me. When I thought about why I liked it so much, I concluded that it returned me to so many of the joyful moments of pictures of the past, riding the cliché's but at the same time hiding them. As a homage to films past, the film maker never is obvious, but builds his film as if all of the happy moments of past films, never happened. A child being pursued by evil forces. A grandpa like figure coming to the rescue. A medical miracle. A show put on to raise needed funds with an incomprehensible rock star, not a Mickey Rooney to produce a barn raising musical. A neighborhood coming together to help save a child from deportation. The film maker gives it all to a jaundiced post modern idea of what film making should be, and people who never want to go home. The movie is technically brilliant, color and photography that show a shabby French port as the land of Oz. Actors who know how to make you love their characters. A delight. See it.

Framescourer Over the weekend I've watched two distinctly cinema-homage films. I say this to justify comparing Simon Pegg's Paul to Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, two films that might otherwise incomparable. I found Le Havre warm but occasionally baffling, which is as much a measure of my ignorance as of Kaurismäki's tenacity to older compositional styles and narratives.The one clear reference that I couldn't miss was that of naming the protagonist's wife Arletty. Le Havre plays out rather like a floating analogy of a resistance drama, much like Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du Paradis, whence comes Arletty, the soul of the film, of France. Elsewhere I liked the heavily studied composition of many of the shots although they didn't always add up aesthetically and the inconsistency of this was distracting. For a film that's so aware of cinema, it was curiously lacking in self-awareness. 5/10

rightwingisevil dangling between political correct and incorrect. but either way, it's very hard to define and distinguish the correctness and incorrectness. yet first, have to point out that this is a very pretentiously scripted movie by a very pretentious director with horrible performance almost by all the actors cast for this pretentious movie. watching those actors played those roles was like watching some robots in the human forms followed the rigid and hollowed dialog to carry out the contract. the scenario was ridiculous and the scenes settings were also pretentious, trying too hard to make this film look like a 1970s production. the people in the film and their costumes were all like what we saw in the 1970s. the tones of this film also pretentiously used old blueish color tones to make it look like a classic movie but actually not. the screenplay borrowed the hot topic of illegal aliens who smuggled into France seeking better lives but at the same time almost ruined its social structures financially and culturally. illegal immigrant problem now is the hottest topic, headache and disaster to all of the European countries. it almost paralyzed and dismantled those countries' societies. yet this movie tried to use such topic to show its humanity by focusing on an African boy chasing constantly by the french police force. in order to show the viewers with some diminishing french conscience, the director and screenwriters even manipulated us by showing us that french police force was like cold blood killers who even tried to gun down the illegal immigrant kid, if not been stopped by the police chief. the french people are now living between black-gray-white situations, they don't know how to deal with such complicated controversial immigrant problems, because after one generation mixed marriage, their social structure has already been becoming dipped more to the gray area. they don't know how to solve the problem, just like the Americans don't know how to deal with the illegal immigrants from the Latin America. that's why last year, we got a movie titled 'better life' to describe the similar situation in America, before that, there were already hundreds movies in the same topic tried very hard to seek a balance point, exactly similar to the problem now spread out in the European countries like pandemic disease, either you accept it or hate it, you have to face it on a daily 365/24/7 basis. this whole movie didn't even ring a bell to me during the viewing, since all the actors seemed to be suddenly dropped into b-level or c-level actors, their performances were simply pathetic. the awkward dialog affected them greatly.this is a poorly produced awkward and moronic movie with a big heart.