Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's "Le Havre" (2011), the overall style is quiet and not sloppy.
According to starring Andre Wilms at the premiere of the film, "I only need to speak calmly, without having to speak violently, to reflect the dignity of being a human being, and not to show off." At the meeting, a reporter asked Archie, I heard that your camera was used by Bergman. He joked that Bergman only made two films with it, I've made 18 with it, let Bergman rest in peace, and again, this camera was bought from his company, not Bought directly from Bergman.
This, I understand Aki very well. It seems that someone always asks Hou Hsiao-hsien, your movie is very influenced by Ozu Yasujiro, Hou Hsiao-hsien said reluctantly, in fact, I hadn't seen one of Ozu's movies before filming "City of Sadness", so I made "A City of Sadness". There are so many films such as "The Man from the Wind Cabinet" and "Love in the Wind and Dust", who do you think I was influenced by?
Yes, their films belong only to themselves, no one else's. Because everyone's experiences and thoughts are unique, only as a unique individual can they interpret their films more completely. Just as, when someone frequently speaks of another deceased master, it seems to degrade him. As the always tough Aki, he absolutely cannot accept it. He is him, and Bergman has nothing to do with me. I don't need a Bergman to build some kind of reputation, and a camera is just a machine.
It's just that the clothes of the people in the play and the architectural style of the small town Le Havre are indeed like what the reporter asked about Akey, much like watching a movie in the 1960s. In my opinion, it looks like an old Eastern European film in the 1960s and 1970s. There are no fashionable objects, no mobile phones, no LCD TVs, and even the police cars in the film are from the 1960s. Archie responded that I'm still using old stuff, but this is about 2007, and I just like old stuff. This outdated scene actually corresponds to the real life of the protagonist.
The stubborn and humorous Archie always attends the new film conference, as usual, he is not angry and arrogant, and at a glance, he thinks it is the famous Hollywood actor Alex Baldwin, and the two look alike. He was smoking an electronic cigarette, and when the host expressed doubts, he immediately pulled out a carton of cigarettes and really started smoking, but he still snuffed it out after a while. What's interesting is that at the press conference, people around you will speak carefully, for fear of answering the wrong way and making Aki unhappy. Indeed, Akey is a hilarious director. This kind of undisguised temperament is also common in the film industry, but Akey is even more special. His stern face is indeed a bit scary.
Fortunately, such a director who dares to say that he is not used to pleasing the mainstream media actually has a warm heart. He is not only a tough guy with a hot heart, but also a very humorous person. As he said, "the more suspicious I am, the more tender my movies are." His "Bohemians" and "Women in the Match Factory", etc., all show the beautiful part of human nature.
"Le Havre" is no exception, as Aki said, you always have to give people a little hope. Aki, who doesn't speak French, has a special affection for France. Except for the Queen's Finnish actress Katie Otining, almost all of them are well-known French actors.
Marcey, played by Andre, was originally a famous writer, and now he makes a living by shining shoes, which can be described as miserable, but he is optimistic by nature, and he has never seen his panic and mess, everything is careless. Zhang Chang, a former smuggler from Vietnam, followed him, and Nguyen Phu Yong, who played Zhang, is a stowaways and is now a Swiss citizen.
The people of this town, most of the commoners, are as helpful as the kind-hearted Marseille. Evil, the aunt who owns a bakery, teases that Marseille always pays her bread on credit, like the endless Congo River. When Saleh, a little black boy who was smuggled from the Congo, was secretly protected by Marseille and needed her help, she did her part to take care of him. There is also Pierre, the owner of the grocery store, the hostess of the small restaurant, and so on.
Even Francis, the boss of the boat who promised to help the children smuggle, does not charge any fees, but the smugglers received by the UK will cost 3,000 euros. So the hostess of the bar proposed to hold a charity concert to raise money for her. The lead singer, the old singer Robert, and his wife, Mimi, were having a quarrel. Marcey helped them persuade them to make peace, and successfully hosted the concert to raise the necessary funds.
But Marseille's neighbors kept making small reports to the police station, saying that the whereabouts of the little boy had provoked the police investigator Henri, played by Jean-Pierre Darushan, to show up repeatedly. Wearing a hat, with a solemn expression. It was he who secretly told Marcel to watch out for your neighbors, but his secret help failed to reassure Marcel. It was only when the boat escorting the child was about to leave, Henley arrived with the police and took away the police officers who were eager to check, that Marcel suddenly realized.
Indeed, Unley has been helping him at the risk of breaking the law. What's interesting is that in the film, when Ang Li entered the small restaurant with a Poirot shaped like a grenade, people projected expressions of distrust and contempt, which made Ang Li very aggrieved.
Of course, there is also Marcel's persistent wife, Aletti. This role played by Katie can be described as extremely gentle and virtuous, and she is meticulous to him. He was seriously ill and didn't tell him. He was always worried about Marcel's life after enduring the pain. After being hospitalized, he even made an excuse not to let Marcel come to visit, so as to relieve him of his troubles and normal work. Dr. Becker dedicated herself to treating Aleti's illness.
At this time, Marcel silently went to the Calais homeless camp to inquire about the little boy's family, and finally found his grandfather at a nearby shelter. His grandfather said that Little Saleh's father died early, and his mother worked in a Chinese laundry in London. The old man held Marcel's hand tightly and said, "Promise me, you won't let them take the child, you can help him".
When the police entered the residential area to check, it was Zhang, a Vietnamese, who was pushing the vegetable cart, and An Ran took the little boy to the pier. When Marcel sent the little boy away with a bouquet of flowers, he came to the hospital to visit his wife, but found that the bed was empty with only the skirt he had asked the little boy to send, and he was suddenly nervous.
Dr. Becker said with a stern face, "I heard that there is only one case of this disease cured in Shanghai, and your wife has the opposite development." After speaking, the wife slowly appeared, which was very nervous, humorous and enjoyable. Marcel took his wife home in a taxi and pushed open the wooden door of the small courtyard. His wife tilted her head and made a new discovery. She smiled and said to him that the cherry blossoms are blooming again. Marcel smiled slightly.
In recent years, there have been many films about the shooting of stowaways, especially in France. The actual situation is that EU countries have been facing the problem of smuggling in North Africa, West Asia and other places, and it is getting worse. Archie said that there are reasons for this after the end of World War II, and there are also colonial reasons. In short, it needs to find a solution.
In fact, this is an unsolved problem. A steady stream of smugglers from North Africa flocked from the Mediterranean to the Apennine Peninsula and southern France. Refugees from Syria and other countries crossed the Bosporus from Greece, through Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and entered Germany and Austria. As long as poverty, disputes and wars continued, An "immigration tide" is inevitable. It is difficult to say that this is caused by a certain reason. It should be the result of the accumulation of multiple factors from history and reality. In a word, the smuggling army will permanently trouble the EU countries, after all, it is a wealthy place that refugees always yearn for.
2015, 8, 24
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