Safe Conduct
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Actor: Charlotte Kady, Denis Podalydès, Ged Marlon, Jacques Gamblin, Marie DesgrangesBrand: E1 Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Enhanced, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 170 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: KOCH LORBER FILMS
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Movie Review: Making movies in Nazi-occupied Paris . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
This long and rambling - though fast-paced - film is loosely based on the memoirs of two French filmmakers, who worked in the movie industry during the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s. Jean Devaivre is a serious-minded, striving young director who agrees to assistant direct for a German-run studio, while working also in the Resistance. The other, Jean Aurenche, is a hyperactive screenwriter, juggling writing assignments and relationships with several women while living out of suitcases. The film toggles back and forth between their two storylines, introducing a broad cast of other characters who pass in and out of their lives.
The mood of the film shifts between anxiety, sorrow, and farce, reflecting the director's belief (as explained in a DVD extra) that a single point of view doesn't adequately represent the experience of life in occupied France - at least for those not rounded up or arrested and sent off to die in the camps. And the period costuming and set design often expand the scale of the film, filling the screen (the bigger the better) and achieving a persuasive authenticity. A night-time air raid early in the opening scenes, as Paris is bombed, is heart stopping. As usual, director Tavernier isn't so much interested in a strongly plotted story as immersing us in the details of his characters' richly varied lives, making vividly real the time and place they inhabit.
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