Rotten
Longer than 2 1/2 hours, there's too much to sort out and the confusion becomes annoying.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Safe Conduct
2002 · 2h 51m · Not Rated
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Bertrand Tavernier
Overview
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
Director and cast
- Bertrand Tavernier Director
- Jacques Gamblin as Jean-Devaivre
- Denis Podalydès as Jean Aurenche
- Charlotte Kady as Suzanne Raymond
- Marie Desgranges as Simone Devaivre
- Ged Marlon as Jean-Paul Le Chanois
- Philippe Morier-Genoud as Maurice Tourneur
- Laurent Schilling as Charles Spaak
- Maria Pitarresi as Reine Sorignal
- Christian Berkel as Alfred Greven
- Richard Sammel as Richard Pottier
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[While The Last Metro] was more melodramatic, confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions, while Tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
No one who loves French film (or movies in general) should miss it.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
There's an epic here, but you have to put it together yourself.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
Though it runs 163 minutes, Safe Conduct is anything but languorous. It's packed to bursting with incident, and with scores of characters, some fictional, some from history.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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