"Le Havre" film review “Le Havre”, which won one prize in Cannes Film Festival in 2011, is a comedy-drama directed by Aki Kaurismaki, a Finish screenwriter and film director. Is stars André Wilms, Katie Oudien and Jean-Pierre Leaud, a regular actor of Truffaut's films. The film was set in Le Havre a french port city from the Normandy region, located on the English Channel. Marcel Marx, is a shoe shiner, a former bohemian writer who used to live in Paris. He lives now with his wife, Arletty, who suffers an illness, but her husband is ignorant of gravity. One day, Marcel discovers Idrissa, a young boy that arrived to France in a container, the film shows how Marcel and many of the citizenships from Le Havre helps the boy hiding him from the police. The great strength of this film is the simplicity, it is skilfully acted by the cast and it includes some signs to french culture. What I like the most is the setting that has a vintage touch, as if the film might have been shot in the seventies. On the other hand, the denouement is highly unlike...or maybe is a message of hope.