Le Havre (2011)
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki · Cinematography by Timo Salminen
93 min168 frames
DramaComedy
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What is Le Havre about?
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish company Sputnik with international co-producers in France and Germany. It is Kaurismäki's second French-language film, after La Vie de Bohème from 1992.
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What does the cinematography of Le Havre look like?
Sampled across 168 frames, the coverage of Le Havre leans on medium shots (64% of the sample) and close-ups (15%). Cinematographer Timo Salminen keeps 63% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 79% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Le Havre?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Le Havre (2011) are #2f3030, #d2d2cd, #4e5351, #131414, #364a50, #8f908c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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