Screening of Finnish Film “Le Havre”

Hanoi: Sat 18 May 2013, 8 pm
Mon 20 May 2013, 6 pm
National Cinema Center
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HCMC: Thu 16 May 2013, 7.15 pm
Sat 18 May 2013, 7.15 pm
Cinebox
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Danang: Sun 19 May 2013, 8 pm
Le Do Cinema

From Embassy of Finland:

The European Film Festival “Europe on screen” will present this year feature and animated films from fourteen European Union Member States.

Finland will present Aki Kaurismäki’s  film “Le Havre”. The film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize.

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa.

As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy.

It’s time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.

Photographer: Marja-Leena Hukkanen. All images ©Sputnik Oy

Watch the film trailer, click here.

All tickets are free of charge and can be picked up from 9 May 2013 for screenings in Ho Chi Minh city and from 10 May for screenings in Hanoi and Danang at the following addresses:

Hanoi: 
Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51
British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780
National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856 

HCMC:
Goethe Institut: 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, District 1, tel: (08) 3 9 12 52 50
British Council: 25 Le Duan, D.1, tel: (08) 3 8 23 28 62
Cinebox: 212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, tel: 08 3935 0610 

Da Nang:
Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 25 74
Cinema & Film Distribution Centre, 68 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 32 84

Full information on the film festival can be found at: http://europeday2013.com/ or www.facebook.com/EUandVietnam