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Le Havre: Cannes 2011 Review

5:07 AM PDT 5/17/2011 by Kirk Honeycutt

A town bands together to reunite an immigrant boy with his mother in Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's tender, enchanting tale, writes Kirk Honeycutt.

CANNES -- Competition films at Cannes can be many things but seldom would you describe them as pure pleasure. Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre is that rare exception, harkening back to his 2002 Cannes entry, The Man Without a Past, in the pleasure department. In this film, the Finnish director is certainly dealing with a pressing issue worldwide - that of illegal migration and political, social and economic refugees. But as always he does so in the context of what he charmingly describes as an “unrealistic film.”

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