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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781567303063
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1567303064
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 56644
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This sprawling French film examines the economically depressed and racially divided city of Marseilles with a network of intersecting characters, each struggling toward happiness or, at least, survival. At the center of these overlapping stories is Michele, who works all night packing fish, only to come home to a drug-addicted daughter, a sullen unemployed husband, and an infant grandchild. Her efforts to help her daughter connect her in different ways to Gerard, a gangster's right-hand man (who is also the movie's most compassionate character), and Paul, a taxi driver who lies to his parents about having a girlfriend. The Town Is Quiet juggles these and other narrative threads with a steady hand and a clear eye, resulting in a bleak but emotionally compelling portrait of desperation. Though the movie offers a few glimpses of hope, many viewers may find its vision too relentless to bear. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Town is Hopelessly Damned
Another overwrought French film which suggests to the viewer that life stinks, especially for the working class, for whom, apparently, there is no joy or beauty. So you might as well kill yourself or kill the perceived source of your anguish. I really learned nothing about the complicated social fabric that is Marseilles or how the troubles that afflict these French might be addressed. I think this movie appeals to people who enjoy being manipulatd and are happy to leave the theater saying "Mon Dieu! ... Read More
Rating:  - A beautiful, engrossing film which may be a masterpiece
Leonard Maltin gives this film 2.5 stars and says inter alia "......those who like gritty human drama will probably find this a satisfactory way to spend a couple of hours".
This to me is such a misrepresentation of the quality of this film as to beggar belief. However, I must confess to the opinion that GWTW is one of the most bloated, overrated works of sentimental tosh to infect our screens - needless to say Mr Maltin gives that work the maximum rating and calls it "one of a kind" as if it is ... Read More
Rating:  - The French Are A Mess
You won't leave a viewing of this film dancing in the streets and praising French Socialism. Robert Guediguian is brutally frank about the French. These people despise Americans. Are you kidding?
We follow French citizens; maybe seven characters from different walks of life go through a week or so of deprivations. The Moslem bartender who abhors violence and racism beds down the teacher married to the womanizing Socialist politician, the do-gooder. You know how that one is going to turn ... Read More
Rating: - Compelling, sad, beautiful
AN expansive, ambitious film portraying the interconnected lives of a diverse cast of characters in the French port city of Marseille.
Visually beautiful and thematically rich, La Ville est Tranquille (The Town is Quiet) delves into issues of family life, politics, drug addiction, race relations in multicultural France and the social impacts of aggressive, corporate-driven economic reform.
Director Robert Guédiguian works with more or less the same ensemble cast in each of his films, led by ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful Drama
"The Town is Quiet" is one of the most powerfull dramas I've ever seen. Even though it's been about half a year since I've seen it I'm still thinking and talking about it.
It is a movie that seems unbearable at the beggining. It seems too sad but as the story builds itself you realize how full of life this movie actually is.
The music is great: Janice Joplin songs are played at just the right time.
"The Town is Quiet" is a great achievement.
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