Le Havre and the Cinema of Nostalgia
The “nostalgia cinema” designation and its tidy Hollywood ending grossly complicate LE HAVRE, an impossible fairy tale firmly rooted in present-day France’s post-colonial, post-9/11 atmosphere of xenophobia.
Le Havre and the Cinema of Nostalgia
The “nostalgia cinema” designation and its tidy Hollywood ending grossly complicate LE HAVRE, an impossible fairy tale firmly rooted in present-day France’s post-colonial, post-9/11 atmosphere of xenophobia.