Directed by Aki Kaurismaki
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
A middle aged man works on the streets of Le Havre, France, shining shoes. His wife gets gravely ill and goes to the hospital for treatment. While away, he hides an illegal immigrant, an African teenager, on the run from authorities. He finds the boy's relatives and arranges to smuggle him to England, where his mother waits. As a "reward", his wife is miraculously cured in a contrived ending. Kaurismaki directs his actors to spend most of their time standing motionless, staring into space, arms rigidly straight down their sides, usually smoking a cigarette. After awhile, this becomes tiresome, but when character after character displays the same traits, it's unnatural.
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