Info:
Visningsformat: Ubekfreftet (1.85:1)
Regissør: Aki Kaurismäki
Manusforfatter: Aki Kaurismäki
Skuespillere: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Produksjonsland: Finland, Frankrike
Språk: Fransk
Lengde: 1 time 33 minutter
Innvandring på film:
Immigration is a topic which appears in political rhetoric and news frequently. But the realities experienced by those who struggle for a better life in a new country are often ignored or pushed to the periphery. Our season ‘Immigration on film’ aims to bring these stories to the center of the discourse. Through a compilation of three films that deal with the broader subject of immigration from the global south to the ‘West’ we aim to highlight immigrant perspectives as well as the perspectives of non-immigrant filmmakers who express solidarity through their works.
We start off with Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s critically acclaimed Le Havre, which provides an insight into the complex refugee phenomenon through the tale of a shoeshiner who helps an undocumented immigrant child to reunite with his family. The second film in the season, Lingua Franca, is a personal one by Isabel Sandoval who is an immigrant in the United States herself. It deals with both internal and external challenges faced by a transgender care-worker from the Philippines. And last, but not least, Nationality: Immigrant, a 1976 docu-fiction by the Mauritanian director Sidney Sokhona explores themes which are unfortunately still relevant today, issues such as the economic exploitation of immigrant workers and blatant racism.
Nor:
Vi får et gjensyn med Marcel Marx (André Wilms) rundt tyve år etter La vie de bohème. Han har nå bosatt seg med konen Arletty (Kati Outinen) på Normandiekysten i havnebyen Le Havre, og tjener til livets opphold som skopusser. Men det stille og rolige livet tar fort en dramatisk vending etter han møter på Idrissa (Blondin Miguel), en flyktninggutt på rømmen. Og med politiinspektør Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) i hælene må Marcel, med hjelp fra venner og naboer, gjøre alt de kan for å hjelpe gutten å komme seg til England.
Eng:
We're reunited with Marcel Marx (André Wilms) some twenty years after the events of La vie de bohème. He has now settled down with his wife Arletty (Kati Outinen) on the Normandy coast in the harbour city Le Havre, living his days as a shoeshiner and frequenting his favourite pub in the evenings. After a series of events he has a chance encounter with Idrissa (Blondin Miguel), an illegal immigrant on the run, trying to make his way to England, with police investigator Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) in hot pursuit. The quest then becomes for Marcel, with the help of his friends and a united local community to help Idrissa on his journey, to evade the authorities and reunite him with his relatives already in England.
When questioned in an interview at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival about focusing on the subject matter of refugees coming to Europe, Aki Kaurismäki responded: "Well somebody should, and I was not the best one but nobody else seemed to take the subject [...] as I'm not a very documentary or political director I made a fairytale. The honest truth is much more sad."
Vises i "Tivoli" på Det Akademiske Kvarter (Olav Kyrres Gate 49)