The Town Is Quiet
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2003
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: New Yorker Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jean-Pierre Darroussin & Ariane Ascaride | |
Performer: | Gerard Meylan, Alexandre Ogou, Pierre Banderet, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Christine Brucher, Jacques Boudet, Pascale Roberts & Veronique Balme | |
Directed by | Robert Guediguian | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Guediguian & Jean-Louis Milesi | |
Composition by | Jacques Menichetti | |
Produced by | Robert Guediguian, Gilles Sandoz & Michel Saint-Jean | |
Director of Photography: | Bernard Cavalie |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Strives toward greatness, toward a complete understanding of life in the roiling, unsettled, complex locale they call Marseilles, and its partial success must be applauded.
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Film Threat
Director Robert Guédiguian, who wrote the script with Jean-Louis Milesi and co-produced his film, delivers a story that's particularly French but also sadly universal.
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Charlotte Observer
Rating: 85/100 --
This ville is far from tranquille, but the French twist on this emotional powerhouse keeps proceedings meditative as things go into the gutter.
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Apollo Guide
Rating: 4.5/5 --
It's a pitiless film, uncompromising in what it shows us.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
One of the best French films of the year.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...the film's characters are familiar, real-life people, whose sadness reaches out from the screen.
Seattle Times
...All the actors create distinctive characterizations....Guediguian's latest is an absorbing, panoramic view of characters and their city in continual conflict...
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Product Description:
With THE TOWN IS QUIET, French writer-director Robert Guediguian (MARIUS AND JEANNETTE) brings the bustling, culturally diverse landscape of modern Marseilles to startling life. Opening with an extended pan of the Mediterranean city, Guediguian ingeniously prepares the viewer for the sprawling tale that is about to unfold. Gradually, a revolving cast of characters is introduced, including: Michele (Ariane Ascaride), a struggling fish monger who cares for her heroin-addicted daughter, Fiona (Julie-Marie Parmentier); Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a former dock worker who has turned to driving a taxi; Abderramane (Alexandre Ogou) and Viviane (Christine Brucher), two apparent opposites who form an unlikely relationship; and Gerard (Gerard Meylan), a quiet bar owner with a mysterious connection to Michele. By the time the film builds to its somber, tragic conclusion, each individual is forced to confront his or her current situation, sparking a series of epiphanies that no one will ever forget.
Guediguian's film is the work of a truly gifted storyteller. Juggling at least four major plotlines, he brings his characters together naturally, without ever forcing it. Ascaride, Darroussin, and Meylan are standouts in the superb cast, actors who don't need to speak to convey the hidden sadness that lies just beneath the surface.
Guediguian's film is the work of a truly gifted storyteller. Juggling at least four major plotlines, he brings his characters together naturally, without ever forcing it. Ascaride, Darroussin, and Meylan are standouts in the superb cast, actors who don't need to speak to convey the hidden sadness that lies just beneath the surface.
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