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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Bertrand Tavernier |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Koch Lorber |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - French |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 741952300892 |
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Customer Reviews of Safe Conduct
One of Tavernier's Best This film was barely shown in the U.S. but it's a fascinating recreation of French filmmaking during World War II and a moving study of a few of the people who worked with the French Resistance. Much more serious than another recent French release set during WWII, Bon Voyage. The film will probably be more interesting to lovers of French filmmaking than the general public. But the performances are first-rate so you might want to give it a look even if you might not be initially interested.
I used to like French movies
The obsession of French filmmakers with the German occupation gets another airing in "Safe Conduct," a scattershot, confusing and uninvolving tale of moviemakers under the thumb of the Nazis. If Tavernier had used maybe half the plot he has, it would be a much stronger movie. We keep moving back and forth between an assistant director who divides his time between working for the German-owned movie outfit and working with the Resistance; and a ludicrous screenwriter who keeps getting himself thrown out of his lovers' apartments. In the the best sequence, the assistant director steals documents out of a German officer's office, which results in him getting put on a plane and flown to England -- for a weekend. Movie and history buffs are the best audience for this middling drama, which nevertheless has richly detailed sets and costumes evoking World War II.