Aki Kaurismäki (Source for the photo: here)
In “Le Havre”, the mobile phone is literally an instrument of the devil, isn’t it?
Yes.
It is a wonderful moment, you recognize Jean-Pierre Léaud, and then …
Yes, I like the idea that he was in Truffaut’s Les quatre cents coups, and he was 12 years old and haunted. I show him 50 years later – and now he’s informer. That’s what society does to you.
I imagine characters names like Arletty and Dr. Becker are not coincidental in their reference to great figures in French cinema.
They are the only names I knew.
- Aki Kaurismäki, in an interview with Michael Brooke for Sight & Sound, May 2012