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- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 13 m
- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 13 m
Summary Marseille in the year 2000 is the backdrop to this story of several characters whose lives overlap and influence one another in both tragic and uplifting ways. (New Yorker Films)
Directed By: Robert Guédiguian
Written By: Jean-Louis Milesi, Robert Guédiguian
- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 13 m
- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 2 h 13 m
The Town Is Quiet
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Summary Marseille in the year 2000 is the backdrop to this story of several characters whose lives overlap and influence one another in both tragic and uplifting ways. (New Yorker Films)
Directed By: Robert Guédiguian
Written By: Jean-Louis Milesi, Robert Guédiguian
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
44% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
65
56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
You are left with an overall impression of a movie so full of life that it is almost bursting at the seams.
Fumbling characters find that survival is not a matter of economics alone, it's also a matter of hope.
An audacious film, set in contemporary Marseille.
The sense of loneliness and disaffection makes its effect. Guédiguian offers no answers, and the hope he supplies is almost surreal.
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.
The challenge faced here by writer-director Robert Guédiguian (Charge!) is to keep his cheap melodrama from curdling his insightful societal appraisal.
The last-minute combination of Greek tragedy and Janis Joplin is so genuinely startling that, had the movie been shorted by a third, it might have turned everything around.
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Production Company
Agat Films & Cie,
Canal+,
Diaphana Distribution
Release Date Oct 26, 2001
Duration 2 h 13 m
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Awards
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Mons International Festival of Love Films
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
