Almost Peaceful Movie Review
Almost Peaceful Review
"Almost Peaceful" Overview
Rating: NR
2002
Cast and Crew
Director : Michel DevilleProducer : Rosalinde Deville
Screenwiter : Michel Deville,Rosalinde Deville
Starring : Simon Abkarian,Zabou,Vincent Elbaz,Lubna Azabal,Denis Podalydès,Julie Gayet
The problem with Michel Deville's soulful meditation on life for Jews
immediately after WWII is that nothing much happens over the 90 minute running
time. A Holocaust survivor opens (and overstaffs) a tailor shop, while each of
the employees tries to put their life back together. Their featherweight plots
connect at the shop, and give the movie the barest notion of forward mobility.
This is the kind of movie that stuffy film critics rate highly out of a sense
of guilt and fear, but which never connect with real audiences, desperately
waiting for something to happen.
Aka Un monde presque paisible.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
