In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.... (Full plot summary below)
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In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasSuperb -- Crammed with incident, and bristles with passion and energy. Tavernier treats his actors, every last one of them impressive, as an ensemble. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertYou would imagine a film like this would be greeted with rapture in France, but no. The leading French film magazine, "Cahiers du Cinema," has long scorned the filmmakers of this older generation as makers of mere "quality," and interprets Tavernier's work as an attack on the New Wave generation which replaced them. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThis is one of those films that encapsulate most of its maker's key thoughts and feelings while also connecting us vividly to a fascinating past. No one who loves French film (or movies in general) should miss it. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonSafe Conduct -- a rangy, irreverent, episodic odyssey through French filmmaking during the Occupation -- is one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe movie is full of juices that give it a healthy, pungent flow. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe cast could not -- one could almost say need not -- be improved. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe details feel authentic: The empty Paris streets, the profanation of German anti-aircraft guns atop belle epoque buildings. And Devaivre's adventures provide high tension. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsA remarkable and moving account of a part of the French experience that needs more remembering and less forgetting. |
| Chicago ReaderRichard PortonThe conduct of the French intelligentsia under Nazi occupation remains a tender topic, and the 2002 release of Bertrand Tavernier's film about two filmmakers who follow divergent paths through the Vichy years stirred intense controversy. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxA sprawling, semi-biographical account of two real-life filmmakers who both found work during darkest days the German occupation. |
