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With THE TOWN IS QUIET, French writer-director Robert Guediguian (MARIUS AND JEANNETTE) brings the bustling, culturally diverse landscape of modern Marseilles to startling life. Opening with an extended pan of the Mediterranean city, Guediguian ingeniously prepares the viewer for the sprawling tale that is about to unfold. .. Read more

Starring	Jacques Boudet, Pascale Roberts, Veronique Balme, Pierre Banderet
Director	Robert Guediguian
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Critic's review of La Ville Est Tranquille
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- "...Guediguian's light, mobile camerawork and extensive location shooting expand Marseillais visual idiom, offering an imaginative cross between the warm theatricality of the [19]30s Pagnol films and British-style social realism..."
- 10196
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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- - 8
  - 1
  Not the most uplifiting experience!
  
  Set in Marseille, against a background of rising right wing politics and lowering job prospects Guediguian portrays a short period in the lives of a number of ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Steve Antill
  - Walsall, England
  - 27 Jul 2004 at 06:32
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  - 0
  grim, realistic but worthy
  
  well acted, grim portrayal of the affect of drug addiction on a working class family in France, seemed realsitic but withour much hope
  
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- - a customer
  - 30 Jun 2011 at 07:20
- - 1
  - 0
  La vie, mais pas en rose
  
  Fantastic piece of french realiste cinema. Few directors would dare to look so honestly at the realities of economic meltdown and urban despair. Bleak, ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Isle of Mull
  - 23 Nov 2009 at 21:12
- - 1
  - 1
  La Ville Est Tranquille
  
  This was a nicely put together film, an interesting enough storyline, but ultimately disappointing film for me, as I began to realise that I didn't really ... read more »
  
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- - gothic
  - 71 reviews
  - Craigavon
  - 02 Nov 2009 at 14:44
- - 1
  - 0
  Quiet city
  
  La ville est tranquille is avery good film. It deals with the underbelly of Marseile, the harsh realities of drug and gang cultures in an unsentimental way and ... read more »
  
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  - Reading
  - 10 Jan 2009 at 22:50
- - 1
  - 2
  Le film est putréfié
  
  Generally I am a firm fan of gloomy foreign offerings with irrelevant plotting.
  
  Most of the real rubbish never makes it over here and, anyhow, the ... read more »
  
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- - Lizbell
  - Middlesex
  - 26 Mar 2006 at 20:56
- - 5
  - 0
  Good but very depressing
  
  A good film if a tad depressing. Set in Marseille the story is primarily based around a woman (Michelle)who struggles to hold her family together. Her daughter ... read more »
  
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  - London, England
  - 04 May 2005 at 10:36
- - 1
  - 0
  DISTURBING
  
  Very disturbing. If you like drug addiction, murder, crime, desperation, depression, prostitution and suicide, then this is the film.
  
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- - Jenni
  - West Mids, England
  - 03 May 2005 at 23:04
- - 1
  - 0
  Not for us !
  
  I wish we had avoided this film. Life's too short and piling on the misery like this isn't our cup of tea !!
  
  The hard-to-like characters ... read more »
  
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  - somerset
  - 14 Mar 2005 at 12:34
- - 1
  - 0
  Down to Earth
  
  This is not the kind of film that one forgets the next day. It is disturbing and deeply abrasive.
  
  In the film, one of the character says that a point... read more »
  
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  - London, England
  - 10 Jan 2005 at 23:51
- - 1
  - 3
  cruel and voyeristic
  
  I didn't find the film boring, or badly made, and if I'm absolutely fair it probably deserves more than the one star I gave it, but I absolutely hated ... read more »
  
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- - Mark
  - London
  - 20 Nov 2004 at 22:34
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- - 8
  - 1
  Not the most uplifiting experience!
  
  Set in Marseille, against a background of rising right wing politics and lowering job prospects Guediguian portrays a short period in the lives of a number of ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 12445
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Steve Antill
  - Walsall, England
  - 27 Jul 2004 at 06:32
- - 5
  - 0
  Good but very depressing
  
  A good film if a tad depressing. Set in Marseille the story is primarily based around a woman (Michelle)who struggles to hold her family together. Her daughter ... read more »
  
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- 99443
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  - London, England
  - 04 May 2005 at 10:36
- - 4
  - 1
  A peaceful city
  
  The film centres on the life of a woman who works nights in the fish docks in Marseilles. She is married to an unemployed drunk, her daughter is a heroin addict... read more »
  
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- - BIllJohnson
  - Leamington
  - 30 Jul 2004 at 11:49
- - 2
  - 0
  absolutely heart-...
  
  absolutely heart-breaking and superb film...breath-taking to watch...the outstanding quality of the acting meant that i could not turn away, even during the ... read more »
  
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  - PERTH
  - 13 Oct 2004 at 09:59
- - 2
  - 1
  you can miss it !
  
  Nothing special about this movie. Its over 2 hours long and very, very slow. The last 45 min of the move I put on fast forward. If you decide to watch it, ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 29 Sep 2004 at 09:34
- - 1
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  Powerfull drama in ...
  
  Powerfull drama in MArseille. A masterpiece who show the difficult life in Marseille suburb.
  
  Superb!!!
  
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- - cedric#1
  - LONDON
  - 14 Feb 2004 at 18:02
- - 1
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  The film centres on a ...
  
  The film centres on a number of characters and plot lines in the city of Marseilles. The film is beautifully shot and the sound track is also well chosen for ... read more »
  
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- - Sarah#65
  - MANCHESTER
  - 01 Mar 2004 at 18:02
- - 1
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  This is a French movie...
  
  This is a French movie with English subtitles. This movie is a powerful drama depicting the harsh reality of the struggle of a woman for the survival of her ... read more »
  
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  - LONDON
  - 01 Oct 2004 at 00:16
- - 1
  - 0
  Engaging french drama ...
  
  Engaging french drama about everyday life and the problems of communication in our time. Focusing on loose connections between a group of individuals in ... read more »
  
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- - Jonas#1
  - LONDON
  - 10 Oct 2004 at 22:45
- - 1
  - 0
  Down to Earth
  
  This is not the kind of film that one forgets the next day. It is disturbing and deeply abrasive.
  
  In the film, one of the character says that a point... read more »
  
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- 63388
- - a customer
  - London, England
  - 10 Jan 2005 at 23:51

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Critics' reviews
- "...Guediguian's light, mobile camerawork and extensive location shooting expand Marseillais visual idiom, offering an imaginative cross between the warm theatricality of the [19]30s Pagnol films and British-style social realism..."
- 10196
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- An ironic title for a impassioned panoramic movie about Marseille and its suffering inhabitants: only at the end, after a catalogue of disasters and deaths, is there a ray of hope.
- 31571
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- "...All the actors create distinctive characterizations....Guediguian's latest is an absorbing, panoramic view of characters and their city in continual conflict..."
- 10194
- - Box Office
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- Marseilles, 2000: the city may appear peaceful, even prosperous, but for all the sun, sea and civic rhetoric, life can... read more on Time Out
- 44821
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
- "...Raw, wrenching....THE TOWN IS QUIET maintains an intensely realistic urban ambience..."
- 10195
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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  With THE TOWN IS QUIET, French writer-director Robert Guediguian (MARIUS AND JEANNETTE) brings the bustling, culturally diverse landscape of modern Marseilles to startling life. Opening with an extended pan of the Mediterranean city, Guediguian ingeniously prepares the viewer for the sprawling tale ...