The Town Is Quiet Movie Review 2000

This town isn't quiet at all. Michele (Ascaride) works in a Marseilles fish market and then returns to her dingy apartment to care for her junkie prostitute daughter Fiona (Parmetier), the latter's baby daughter, and her own alcoholic husband (Banderet). Taxi driver Paul (Darroussin) pays Michele for sex so she can buy drugs for her daughter from her former lover Gerard (Meylan). There's several subplots, murders, and a suicide. Don't watch if you're prone to depression. French with subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 132 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

France, Single Parents, Cabbies, Family Ties, Drug Use & Abuse

Screenplay

Robert Guediguian, Jean-Louis Milesi

Cast

Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Pierre Banderet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jacques Boudet, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Pieller, Christine Brucher, Alexandre Ogou

Cinematography

Bernard Cavalie

Director

Robert Guediguian

Other

Laurent Lafran, Bernard Sasia, Catherine Keller, Michel Vandestein

Producer

Robert Guediguian, Gilles Sandoz, Michel Saint-John, Agat Films, Cie-Diaphana, New Yorker Films