French comedy, winner of the International Critics Prize at Cannes 2011, following the friendship between a shoeshiner and an illegal...
French comedy, winner of the International Critics Prize at Cannes 2011, following the friendship between a shoeshiner and an illegal immigrant boy.
"Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre... he has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his shoe-shining work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from darkest Africa.
"As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill, Marcel has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon: innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier. Against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy." (Cannes Film Festival 2011)
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- Award winner
- International Critics Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2011.
- Rating
- PG, Mild themes and infrequent coarse language
- Runtime
- 93
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- Finland, France, Germany