“To hell with realism” is an aesthetic choice, and I’ve been wondering about this scene in Le Havre (2011) for years, ever since I first saw it at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. I can recall my feelings on leaving that cinema.
Walking home in the night rain, the rattle of the King streetcar brought me back to this world, where refugees and migrants frequently perish in containers as they attempt to cross man-made borders …
Bio:
Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator. His writing has appeared in Brick, the New Quarterly, the Malahat Review, and PRISM International.