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

Buster Keaton isn’t dead, he’s alive and well in Finland, where under a new identity he pursues his own particular brand of deadpan absurdism to wonderful effect. If the name Aki Kaurismäki doesn’t ...

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If you're going to the Toronto Film Fest next month or want to check out a wonderful French film coming up, then check out this early festival trailer for Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, as posted on ...

LONDON — “Le Havre,” directed, written and produced by Aki Kaurismaki, will rep Finland in the foreign-language film Oscar race. The pic was selected by a jury supervised by the Finnish Film Chamber.

With “Le Havre,’’ Aki Kaurismäki has made an immigration caper that makes comically dramatizing a political point of view look easy. It’s as if he heard there was breaking news at the docks - more ...

CANNES — Aki Kaurismaki’s ”Le Havre,” Pierre Schoeller’s ”The Minister” and Jeff Nichols’ ”Take Shelter” shared awards Saturday at Cannes from the Fipresci Intl. Federation of Film Critics. Also ...

Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is something of a comeback for the Finnish filmmaker. His warmhearted comedy of underdog working-class solidarity, made with a mixed Finnish-French-Senegalese cast in the ...

‘Tis the season, so the saying goes. And when it comes to Aki Kaurismäki, it holds true. The Finnish writer-director arrives bearing a gift wrapped in a contemporary immigration fable. In the ...