Blessed by the freedom of tomorrow

Marcel Marx (André Wilms) is devoted to protect an immigrant boy Idrissa Saleh (Blondin Miguel). With the help of local people, his friends, shopkeepers and restaurateurs he intends to get the kid the hell out of Le Havre (a port city in the Normandy region of northern France) and its uptight authorities. Aki Kaurismäki's laconic film making knows no equal, the art resides in its quiet and sometimes awkward parts, and you can easily succumb into its almost dreamlike reality. André Wilms died this year.