Monday, March 25, 5:00pm, UNC Charlotte main campus, Student Union Theater, studentunion.uncc.edu
Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, France, Germany. 2011 / 93 min.
Introduction by Christine Haynes, Associate Professor of History, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.
A wonderful celebration of France’s national motto—liberty, equality, fraternity—Le Havre is also something of a paean to World War II Resistance dramas. Le Havre centers on Marcel Marx, a once-famous Parisian writer now making his living shining shoes in the northern port town of the title. Marcel divides his time between drinking with his neighbors at the local bar and caring for his ill wife, Arletty. But he soon serves a much nobler purpose when he comes to the aid of Idrissa, a young illegal immigrant from Gabon.