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 ...

Mixing together some of helmer Aki Kaurismaki’s favorite Gallic and Finnish thesps with a few newbies, “Le Havre” feels like a welcoming family reunion. A semi-contempo fairy tale about a shoeshine ...

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 ...

Aki Kaurismäki is the cinema’s hardest working modernist, a director for whom a commitment to a particular aesthetic universe and a singular style has provided an incredibly fertile landscape in which ...

This is an updated version of Andrew O'Hehir's original review of "Le Havre" from the Cannes Film Festival. Aki Kaurismäki, a Finnish director who makes mordant, wistful black comedies laced with ...

CANNES, France — Aki Kaurismäki, a Finnish director who makes mordant, wistful black comedies laced with pop-culture nostalgia, is pretty much the last person you’d expect to make a movie about Europe ...

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 ...

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It feels like a family reunion with some of Aki Kaurismaki's favorite Gallic and Finnish thesps, joined by a few newbies in 'Le Havre.' Mixing together some of helmer Aki Kaurismaki’s favorite Gallic ...

It’s always a treat to welcome a film by Aki Kaurismaki, Finland’s irrepressible master of deadpan humor. His latest, “Le Havre’’ — a hit at the 2011 New York Film Festival — is set in the French port ...