Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre

With only a pair of films made in the past decade with The Man Without a Past (2002) and Lights in the Dusk (2006), we are itching for Kaurismaki’s brand of dramatic comedy.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 14, 2011

#32. Le Havre

Director/Screenwriter: Aki Kaurismäki
Producers: Haije Tulokas
Distributor: Rights Available.

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Cast: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo and Ilkka Koivula

List Worthy Reasons…: With only a pair of films made in the past decade with The Man Without a Past (2002) and Lights in the Dusk (2006), we are itching for Kaurismaki’s brand of dramatic comedy.

Release Date/Status?: The film might receive a headstart in the filmmaker’s native Finland, but Aki Kaurismäki is among Cannes’ favorites so I’m expecting its international preem to take place at the fest especially since it was filmed in France and is in the French language. Fest circuit showings to follow in the autumn.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).